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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. A government study estimated that prior to 1925, how much money had been stolen from adult Osage wards by their appointed white guardians?

2. Where did Tom White have to travel in order to interview Burt Lawson about the Osage murders?

3. How much insurance money was collected upon the burning of William Hale's fields?

4. Who was NOT among the people Bill Smith met with in the hospital shortly before his death, when he asked the nurse to leave the room?

5. In what organization did Tom White enlist when he was 24?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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)?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the ways in which Tom White and Mollie Burkhart were both struggling to adapt to a cultural transition within the events of the narrative. Compare and contrast the author's depiction of each person and discuss how the book's themes are displayed within the characterizations of these two real people from history.

Essay Topic 2

Many instances of irony are included in the narrative of Killers of the Flower Moon. Find three instances of irony within the book and discuss each instance's significance and its connection to the book's overall themes.

Essay Topic 3

What is Grann's message regarding the press within the book Killers of the Flower Moon?

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