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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. What was the name of the part-Kaw, part-Osage U.S. senator from Kansas who was then the "highest official with acknowledged Indian ancestry ever elected to office" (96)?
(a) William Hale.
(b) John Palmer.
(c) Tom White.
(d) Charles Curtis.

2. What was Anna's late sister's official cause of death?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) A wasting illness.
(d) Brain cancer.

3. Lots at the Osage land auction were never sold for less than what sum of money?
(a) $15,000.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $2,500.
(d) $500.

4. Who was the sitting U.S. president when the Louisiana Purchase was enacted?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) James Madison.

5. Who testified in defense of the Osage people at a Congressional hearing, arguing "that the government should not be dictating the Osage's financial decisions" (79)?
(a) Tom White.
(b) William Hale.
(c) Mollie Burkhart.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caliber pistol was used to kill both Charles Whitehorn and Anna Brown?

2. The county prosecutor requested an exhumation of Anna's body in order to look for what piece of evidence?

3. Within how many years of the Louisiana Purchase were the Osage forced by the U.S. government to "relinquish their territory between the Arkansas River and the Missouri River" (37)?

4. What quality of the land convinced the Osage chief Wah-Ti-An-Kah and others in the tribe to purchase it as their new homeland?

5. What was W.W. Vaughn's answer when the sheriff asked him if he knew who had killed George Bigheart?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How were the Osage people depicted in the media?

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

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

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

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

7. To whom does Chronicle Two's title The Evidence Man refer and how does its title set up a comparison between Mollie and the "evidence" man (101)?

8. How is the theme of racism inherent in the appointment of financial guardians to some Osage people?

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

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

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