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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. How old was Tom White when he watched his father execute a criminal?
(a) 13.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

2. Al Spencer told Tom White that William Hale had once offered him $2,000 to kill which two people?
(a) Dick Gregg and Bryan Burkhart.
(b) W.W. Vaughn and Barney McBride.
(c) Bill and Anna Smith.
(d) Mollie and Ernest Burkhart.

3. How much insurance money was collected upon the burning of William Hale's fields?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $15,000.
(c) $30,000.
(d) $50,000.

4. When Pike, the private detective from Kansas, revealed that he had not really been hired to solve Anna's murder, what did he reveal his true purpose to be?
(a) He was hired as a bodyguard for Tom White.
(b) He was hired to find the mole with the Reign of Terror investigation.
(c) He was hired to conceal Bryan's whereabouts on the night of Anna's murder.
(d) He was hired to kill Kelsie Morrison.

5. How does the author describe William Hale's manner immediately after Tom White had detailed the overwhelming evidence incriminating William Hale in several murders?
(a) Preoccupied.
(b) Detached.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Unperturbed.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Who was the last person who had to die before Ernest Burkhart would control all of his wife's family's headrights?

4. Whom did Ernest Burkhart name as the murderer of Henry Roan?

5. What happened to prevent the hired gunman from killing Katherine Cole?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author mean when he describes the Shoun brothers as "seemingly ubiquitous" (158) when he discusses their involvement in Henry Roan's insurance policy dealings?

2. The author surmises that if widely circulated rumors are true, then Hale had killed his own unborn baby. What were these conditions?

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

4. To whom does Chapter 13's title refer in its moniker A Traitor to His Blood?

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

6. What was Tom White's reaction to discovering that so many possible witnesses could no longer testify because they were dead?

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

8. 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?

9. How was John Ramsey's confession laden with the era's racist views held by whites about Native Americans?

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

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