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

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

3. When Pike, the private detective from Kansas, revealed that he had not really been hired to solve Anna's murder, what did he reveal his true purpose to be?
(a) He was hired as a bodyguard for Tom White.
(b) He was hired to find the mole with the Reign of Terror investigation.
(c) He was hired to kill Kelsie Morrison.
(d) He was hired to conceal Bryan's whereabouts on the night of Anna's murder.

4. William Hale once said, "I, like many other good men, believed it would be only a short time until Congress would pass a law" (160) that permitted what practice?
(a) Alcohol sales on reservation lands.
(b) Lynchings.
(c) Gambling on reservation lands.
(d) The sale of headrights.

5. What happened to prevent the hired gunman from killing Katherine Cole?
(a) He decided not to go through with it and then told the police about the plot.
(b) He disappeared.
(c) William Hale stabbed him to death.
(d) He was shot.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what town were John Ramsey and William Hale tried for murder?

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. What was NOT one of the categories assessed on the Bureau of Investigation's Efficiency Rating sheets?

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

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

3. What was the reaction of the public to the news of how deep the conspiracy against the Osage had actually gone?

4. 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?

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

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

7. 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)?

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

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

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

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