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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. What changed William Hale's initial reaction to the news that his case would have to be tried in state court?
(a) Mollie Burkhart spoke up from the back of the courtroom.
(b) Tom White informed William Hale that he would only be released for a few hours.
(c) He heard his nephew Ernest Burkhart cry out.
(d) Sheriff Freas arrested William Hale, this time on state charges.

2. 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) Tom White was killed in the line of duty.
(c) Ernest Burkhart made a full confession.
(d) The governor of Oklahoma was assassinated.

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

4. Whom did Ernest Burkhart name as Anna's murderer?
(a) Henry Grammer.
(b) William Hale.
(c) Kelsie Morrison.
(d) Asa Kirby.

5. The author states that when William Hale turned himself in to Sheriff Freas, he looked as if he were going where?
(a) To a formal party.
(b) To church.
(c) To heaven.
(d) To his execution.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what issue did Tom White and J. Edgar Hoover strongly disagree?

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

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

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

5. When the undercover operative talked to the worker at the Fairfax gas station, who did she name as controlling all aspects of life in the area?

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

3. What emotions did Tom White feel upon beginning his interrogation of William Hale?

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. To what plan is the author referring when he states, "the plan was so brazen, so sinister, that it was hard to fathom" (162)?

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. 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)?

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