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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. Which one of Tom White's brothers was gunned down when he went to arrest a pair of deserters in East Texas?
(a) Dudley.
(b) Doc.
(c) N.P.
(d) Coley.

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

3. 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?
(a) The Kansas attorney general.
(b) The Oklahoma attorney general.
(c) The Utah attorney general.
(d) The Colorado attorney general.

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

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) Nervous.
(b) Preoccupied.
(c) Detached.
(d) Unperturbed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What outrageous claim did William Hale make when he testified on his own behalf?

2. With whose lawyers did Ernest Burkhart enter the judge's chambers for a private conversation, much to the dismay of the prosecution?

3. What is NOT one thing Mollie said in defense of her husband Ernest at the time of his arrest?

4. Who did Bill Smith name as the executor of his slain wife Rita's will as he lay upon his deathbed?

5. Who served as a guardian to both Anna and Lizzie before their deaths?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did Tom White release the pent-up frustration created by his investigation of William Hale's involvement in the Osage murders?

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

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