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

2. How old was Tom White when his mother died?
(a) 8.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

3. What outrageous claim did William Hale make when he testified on his own behalf?
(a) He claimed that his answers would incriminate him.
(b) He claimed that Ernest Burkhart was jealous of him and wanted to steal William Hale's wife.
(c) He claimed that Henry Roan had committed suicide.
(d) He claimed that Tom White and his agents had brutally coerced his confession from him using torture.

4. John Ramsey denied involvement in the murder of Henry Roan until he was shown what document?
(a) Ernest Burkhart's signed confession.
(b) The arrest warrants for his mother and brother.
(c) The warrant for his arrest.
(d) His wife's signed confession.

5. In what year were warrants issued for William Hale and Ernest Burkhart's arrests in the murders of Bill Smith, Rita Smith, and Nettie Brookshire?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How many years before Anna's death did Mollie and Ernest get married?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. How was John Ramsey's confession laden with the era's racist views held by whites about Native Americans?

8. 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?

9. Why did the Shoun doctors refrain from summoning the sheriff or a prosecutor in favor of summoning Bill Smith's personal attorney as Bill Smith lay upon his deathbed?

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

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