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

2. What caused the justice of the peace to stop convening inquests into the latest Osage murders in 1923?
(a) He received anonymous threats.
(b) He lost interest in the case.
(c) He was murdered.
(d) He was bribed.

3. Who was the only one to survive the bombing of the Smiths' home, but only lived for four days?
(a) Bill Smith.
(b) Rita Smith.
(c) Nettie Brookshire.
(d) Mollie Burkhart.

4. What fact made the authorities certain that W.W. Vaughn's disappearance from his train was the result of foul play?
(a) W.W. Vaughn's luggage was still on the train.
(b) A ransom note was left on his train seat.
(c) There was broken glass and blood on his train seat.
(d) Poison residue was found in his drink glass.

5. In what year was the Louisiana Purchase enacted, "which contained lands dominated by the Osage" (37)?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1816.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after Anna's murder did her mother Lizzie die of a "peculiar wasting illness" (35)?

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

3. How old was Henry Roan at the time of his murder?

4. What is NOT one role the author names when describing Henry Grammer?

5. Which of the following was an action the lawmen took upon finding Anna's body?

Short Essay Questions

1. Characterize the relationship among Mollie, Lizzie and Anna.

2. 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)?

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

4. 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?

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

6. 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)?

7. 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?

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

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

10. 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?

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