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

2. What was NOT one of the categories assessed on the Bureau of Investigation's Efficiency Rating sheets?
(a) Personal Appearance.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Judgment.
(d) Fairness.

3. 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 to kill Kelsie Morrison.
(b) He was hired as a bodyguard for Tom White.
(c) He was hired to conceal Bryan's whereabouts on the night of Anna's murder.
(d) He was hired to find the mole with the Reign of Terror investigation.

4. Who was the last person who had to die before Ernest Burkhart would control all of his wife's family's headrights?
(a) Mollie Burkhart.
(b) Bill Smith.
(c) Rita Smith.
(d) William Hale.

5. As a last resort before William Hale would be released, who did Tom White have transported to Guthrie without J. Edgar Hoover's knowledge?
(a) W.W. Vaughn.
(b) Henry Grammer.
(c) Ernest Burkhart.
(d) Blackie Thompson.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what issue did Tom White and J. Edgar Hoover strongly disagree?

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

3. In what year did Tom White become a special agent of the Bureau of Investigation?

4. To what event did the euphemism "necktie party" (139) refer?

5. What event resulted in putting a stop to the campaign to fire Tom White and his men?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the author consider to be the most damning evidence that Mollie's illness was being caused by poison?

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

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

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

9. What emotions did Tom White feel upon beginning his interrogation of William Hale?

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

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