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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. Which of the following was an action the lawmen took upon finding Anna's body?
(a) Detected tire marks in the soil.
(b) Took photographs of the scene.
(c) Made a cast impression of the tire tracks.
(d) Dusted the whiskey bottle for fingerprints.

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

3. What happened after Bill Smith confided in several people that he was getting somewhere with his detective work?
(a) He was set on fire.
(b) He went missing and was eventually declared dead.
(c) He was shot.
(d) His house was bombed.

4. When the Osage land auction record rose to nearly $14 million, a reporter remarked in an article, "The Osage Indians are becoming so rich that" (76) what?
(a) Their lives were now worth nothing.
(b) Something would have to be done about it.
(c) They were in danger of overstepping their bounds.
(d) They would soon be able to leave the country altogether.

5. Which of Mollie's sisters had died three years before the beginning of the narrative?
(a) Minnie.
(b) Lizzie.
(c) Anna.
(d) Mabel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the only one to survive the bombing of the Smiths' home, but only lived for four days?

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

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

4. In what state was the Osage tribe's land located in 1921 at the time of the narrative's beginning?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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)?

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

3. 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)?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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