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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. Where did Tom White have to travel in order to interview Burt Lawson about the Osage murders?
(a) To the Dominican Republic.
(b) To Utah.
(c) To the McAlester state penitentiary.
(d) To Colorado.

2. Who did Bill Smith name as the executor of his slain wife Rita's will as he lay upon his deathbed?
(a) James Shoun.
(b) David Shoun.
(c) Mollie Burkhart.
(d) William Hale.

3. In what organization did Tom White enlist when he was 24?
(a) The Anti-Indian Militia.
(b) The Texas Rangers.
(c) The Masons.
(d) The Daughters of the American Revolution.

4. To whom did Anna Brown bequeath nearly all her wealth upon her death?
(a) Her sister Minnie.
(b) Her sister Mollie.
(c) Her daughter Anna.
(d) Her mother Lizzie.

5. Once Tom White realized that corrupt white citizens would not implicate one another, what group did he turn to next in his quest to solve the Osage murders?
(a) Restricted Osage tribe members.
(b) The guardians of the restricted Osage tribe members.
(c) The white outlaws of the Osage Hills.
(d) Unrestricted Osage tribe members.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ernest Burkhart decided to tell the whole truth, how did he escape from his uncle's control?

2. 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?

3. What reason did Henry Roan's widow give for not drinking the whiskey brought to her by William Hale?

4. In 1926, Ernest Burkhart was sentenced to what punishment for his crimes?

5. Tom White was told by Mollie's priest that she sent him a secret message stating what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author mean when he describes Mollie Burkhart during the trial, saying that she was "cast out from the two worlds that she'd always straddled" (202)?

2. What did Tom White's investigation into the system of Osage guardianship reveal?

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

4. 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?

5. What turned out to be the true events leading up to the bombing of the Smiths' home?

6. To what plan is the author referring when he states, "the plan was so brazen, so sinister, that it was hard to fathom" (162)?

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

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

9. 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)?

10. How is paradox apparent within the question of which government entity had jurisdiction over the Osage murders?

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