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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. What was Kelsie Morrison's answer when he was asked what he had done directly after shooting Anna in the head?
(a) He said he had gone to the bar to celebrate.
(b) He said he had succumbed to a nervous breakdown.
(c) He said he had become frozen with fear.
(d) He said he had gone home and had eaten supper.

2. What event resulted in putting a stop to the campaign to fire Tom White and his men?
(a) Tom White was killed in the line of duty.
(b) J. Edgar Hoover was given a commendation by the U.S. government.
(c) The governor of Oklahoma was assassinated.
(d) Ernest Burkhart made a full confession.

3. Who hired a hitman to murder Katherine Cole, Kelsie Morrison's former wife, "who was Osage and had agreed to testify for the prosecution" (200)?
(a) Kelsie Morrison.
(b) Henry Grammer.
(c) Sheriff Freas.
(d) Henry Roan.

4. Who was the first person to suspect that Lizzie had been murdered using poison?
(a) Tom White.
(b) Charles Whitehorn.
(c) Rita Smith.
(d) Bill Smith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Tom White's father elected as county sheriff?

2. As a last resort before William Hale would be released, who did Tom White have transported to Guthrie without J. Edgar Hoover's knowledge?

3. How much did Ernest Burkhart offer to pay Burt Lawson for murdering Bill Smith?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were the reasons for William Hale's certainty that he would not be convicted of murder?

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

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

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

6. 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)?

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

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

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

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

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