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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. The text states that which person was "revered as the 'King of the Osage Hills'" (29)?
(a) Ernest Burkhart.
(b) Charles Whitehorn.
(c) Herve Freas.
(d) William Hale.

2. Who was Mollie's appointed financial guardian?
(a) Bryan Burkhart.
(b) William Hale.
(c) Ernest Burkhart.
(d) Bill Smith.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Anna's late sister's official cause of death?

2. 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)?

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

4. What writer does the author quote when he writes that the age described in the narrative "was a time marked" (77) by an author who called it "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history"? (77)

5. What decade was a writer of the age referring to when calling it "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history" (77)?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why were the people of the Osage tribe already on high alert by the time Anna disappeared?

3. How did the acting sheriff of Osage County, Harve M. Freas, react to the news of Anna's murder and what is the significance of his reaction?

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

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

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

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

8. 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)?

9. 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?

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

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