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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) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 13.
(d) 8.

2. In the spring of 1925, J. Edgar Hoover fired many Bureau of Investigation agents in San Francisco for what transgression?
(a) Smoking cigars.
(b) Drinking liquor.
(c) Visiting speakeasies.
(d) Engaging in extramarital affairs.

3. Soon after the grand jury proceedings against William Hale began, one of his "cronies" (200), who also happened to be a pastor, was charged with committing what crime?
(a) Assault.
(b) Witness tampering.
(c) Theft.
(d) Perjury.

4. 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.

5. J. Edgar Hoover often repeated the maxim "You either improve or" (167) do what?
(a) Fail.
(b) Disappear.
(c) Deteriorate.
(d) Disprove.

Short Answer Questions

1. What expected revelation was made the day after Ernest's private conversations with another man's lawyers?

2. In what organization did Tom White enlist when he was 24?

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

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

5. When Tom White married in 1908, whom did he marry?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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)?

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

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

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 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)?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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