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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who created the Bureau of Investigation, "hoping to fill the void in federal law enforcement" (105)?
(a) President James Garfield.
(b) Tom White.
(c) President Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) J. Edgar Hoover.

2. In what year did Mollie and Henry marry?
(a) 1898.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1902.

3. What was determined to be the cause of Anna's death?
(a) A gunshot wound.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Asphyxiation.
(d) Poisoning.

4. In what location of Kansas were the Osage forced to settle once they had been forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in Oklahoma?
(a) Southeastern Colorado.
(b) Southeastern Kansas.
(c) Northwestern Kansas.
(d) Southwestern Iowa.

5. What promise did William Hale make to Mollie after the bombing of Bill and Rita Smith's home, resulting in their murders?
(a) He promised to adopt the Smiths' children.
(b) He promised to avenge her family's murders.
(c) He promised to pay for the renovation of the Smiths' former home.
(d) He promised to move away from the reservation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harve M. Freas was the sheriff of what county at the time of Anna's death?

2. The text states that American lawmen in the 1920s "were then still largely" (19) what?

3. Who served as a pallbearer at both Anna's and Henry's funerals?

4. In what year was the Louisiana Purchase enacted, "which contained lands dominated by the Osage" (37)?

5. What item of Anna's was found at the murder scene and was given to Anna's mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What details does the author use to portray Tom White's character and how is Tom White compared to Mollie Burkhart?

2. What types of details are revealed about Bill Smith that lead the reader to think that he may have been involved in Anna's murder?

3. What is the symbolism of Anna's alligator purse?

4. What is the meaning of the book's title, Killers of the Flower Moon?

5. What does the author note as the cause of Mollie falling in love with Ernest?

6. How does Mollie's life and personality change as a result of the Osage Reign of Terror?

7. What is the subject of the quote used to begin Chronicle Two: The Evidence Man and what is his purpose for using it?

8. What details does the author reveal about Henry Roan and what is his purpose for revealing these particular details?

9. What is the author's purpose for including a before picture and an after picture of Bill and Rita Smith's house within the text?

10. What happened in the 1870s that eventually resulted in great wealth for the Osage people?

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