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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 one of Tom White's brothers was gunned down when he went to arrest a pair of deserters in East Texas?
(a) Dudley.
(b) Doc.
(c) Coley.
(d) N.P.

2. What outrageous claim did William Hale make when he testified on his own behalf?
(a) He claimed that Ernest Burkhart was jealous of him and wanted to steal William Hale's wife.
(b) He claimed that Tom White and his agents had brutally coerced his confession from him using torture.
(c) He claimed that Henry Roan had committed suicide.
(d) He claimed that his answers would incriminate him.

3. About what crime did Ernest forever claim to have had no prior knowledge?
(a) The attempts to poison Mollie.
(b) The shooting of Anna.
(c) Charles Whitehorn's murder.
(d) The pushing of W.W. Vaughn from the train.

4. When Ernest Burkhart finally decided to talk, who did he demand to speak to during his confession?
(a) J. Edgar Hoover.
(b) Mollie Burkhart.
(c) Tom White.
(d) Sheriff Freas.

5. With whom did Tom White and the prosecutors work in order to keep William Hale and John Ramsey behind bars by filing state charges against them for the bombing murders?
(a) The Oklahoma attorney general.
(b) The Colorado attorney general.
(c) The Utah attorney general.
(d) The Kansas attorney general.

Short Answer Questions

1. Al Spencer told Tom White that William Hale had once offered him $2,000 to kill which two people?

2. J. Edgar Hoover often repeated the maxim "You either improve or" (167) do what?

3. In the spring of 1925, J. Edgar Hoover fired many Bureau of Investigation agents in San Francisco for what transgression?

4. Who was NOT among the people Bill Smith met with in the hospital shortly before his death, when he asked the nurse to leave the room?

5. Who served as a guardian to both Anna and Lizzie before their deaths?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Osage man mean when he told a reporter, "Tell everybody, when you write your story, that they're scalping our souls out here" (156)?

2. Why did the Shoun doctors refrain from summoning the sheriff or a prosecutor in favor of summoning Bill Smith's personal attorney as Bill Smith lay upon his deathbed?

3. What was the reaction of the public to the news of how deep the conspiracy against the Osage had actually gone?

4. What evidence does the author provide to support his claim that Tom White "was feeling pressure not just from Hoover" (171)?

5. When William Hale responded to John Ramsey's panic at being tried for the murder of Henry Roan, what did William Hale say to reassure him?

6. What is the significance of the photograph in the text that depicts a roping contest from 1909?

7. How did the media portray Mollie Burkhart during the trial of Ernest Burkhart and William Hale?

8. How were the Texas Rangers viewed differently by white Texans than they were viewed by people of color?

9. What is the meaning of the title of Chapter 12, A Wilderness of Mirrors?

10. What did the men on the list of witnesses for the prosecution of William Hale have in common?

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