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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. Tom White discovered that the Shoun brothers had been giving Mollie injections that were supposed to contain what substance?
(a) Smallpox vaccinations.
(b) Vitamin B.
(c) Insulin.
(d) Morphine.

2. About what issue did Tom White and J. Edgar Hoover strongly disagree?
(a) The recognition of regional differences in agent assignments.
(b) William Hale's level of involvement in the Osage murders.
(c) The ways in which laymen should speak to the public.
(d) The trustworthiness of informers.

3. In what organization did Tom White enlist when he was 24?
(a) The Masons.
(b) The Anti-Indian Militia.
(c) The Daughters of the American Revolution.
(d) The Texas Rangers.

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

5. In what famous murder case were handwriting and document analysis first instrumentally used?
(a) The Boston Strangler.
(b) Leopold and Loeb.
(c) H.H. Holmes.
(d) Jack the Ripper.

Short Answer Questions

1. Even though Burt Lawson turned down Ernest Burkhart's offer twice, what caused him to finally relent and agree to bomb Bill Smith's house?

2. When William Hale told an ally that there was only one witness he was afraid of, whom did he name?

3. To whom did Anna Brown bequeath nearly all her wealth upon her death?

4. Which one of Tom White's brothers was gunned down when he went to arrest a pair of deserters in East Texas?

5. In 1926, Ernest Burkhart was sentenced to what punishment for his crimes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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)?

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

6. 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?

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

8. 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)?

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

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

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