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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. Who lit the fuse to the bomb under the Smiths' home?
(a) Ernest Burkhart.
(b) William Hale.
(c) Bryan Burkhart.
(d) Burt Lawson.

2. When Ernest Burkhart finally decided to talk, who did he demand to speak to during his confession?
(a) Mollie Burkhart.
(b) Tom White.
(c) Sheriff Freas.
(d) J. Edgar Hoover.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Mollie's response when the attorney assisting the prosecution asked her if she loved her husband?

5. At the start of William Hale and John Ramsey's trial, who does William Hale's lawyer ask to have ejected from the courtroom?

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. 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. 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)?

6. 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?

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

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

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