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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. In which settlement did Mollie and her family live within the Osage reservation?
(a) Pawhuska.
(b) Gray Horse.
(c) Whizbang.
(d) Sutpen.

2. The Osage refer to which month as "the time of the flower-killing moon" (5)?
(a) April.
(b) October.
(c) June.
(d) May.

3. The last person to be seen with Anna Brown the night she disappeared said that he saw her last when he completed what action?
(a) When they went to sleep in her bed.
(b) When he dropped her off at her favorite bar.
(c) When he relented and let her out of the car on the side of the highway.
(d) When he dropped Anna off at her home.

4. How many times per year were Osage land auctions held?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

5. How long after Barney McBride's murder was Henry Roan's body found?
(a) Six months.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Two months.
(d) Three days.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what time period did police departments emerge in the United States?

2. What fact made the authorities certain that W.W. Vaughn's disappearance from his train was the result of foul play?

3. Lots at the Osage land auction were never sold for less than what sum of money?

4. With whom was Anna riding in a car the final time Mollie saw Anna alive?

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 reveal about Henry Roan and what is his purpose for revealing these particular details?

2. Though William J. Burns was revered for his investigation skills, even being given the nickname of "America's Sherlock Holmes" (63) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, what evidence does the author provide that points to his lack of integrity?

3. How does the theme of the fight against oppression emerge within John Palmer's interactions with Charles Curtis?

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

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

6. 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?

7. What evidence does the author use to support his claim that "It wasn't only the federal government that was meddling in the tribe's financial affairs" (80)?

8. Describe the scenes of the auctions of Osage leases that happened four times a year and were overseen by the Department of the Interior?

9. How do the actions of Operative No. 46 demonstrate the author's claim that "this was what Sherlock Holmes stories left out--the tedium of real detective work, the false leads and dead ends" (61)?

10. Describe the racism inherent in the assignment of guardians to the Osage people subsequent to the discovery of oil beneath reservation land.

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