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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. How old was Tom White when he watched his father execute a criminal?
2. About what crime did Ernest forever claim to have had no prior knowledge?
3. To what organization did Tom White return after his brother was gunned down in East Texas?
4. Who was the last person who had to die before Ernest Burkhart would control all of his wife's family's headrights?
5. With whose lawyers did Ernest Burkhart enter the judge's chambers for a private conversation, much to the dismay of the prosecution?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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)?
2. What does the author consider to be the most damning evidence that Mollie's illness was being caused by poison?
3. How did Tom White release the pent-up frustration created by his investigation of William Hale's involvement in the Osage murders?
4. What were the reasons for William Hale's certainty that he would not be convicted of murder?
5. How is paradox apparent within the question of which government entity had jurisdiction over the Osage murders?
6. What did Tom White's investigation into the system of Osage guardianship reveal?
7. 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?
8. 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?
9. How did the media portray Mollie Burkhart during the trial of Ernest Burkhart and William Hale?
10. What emotions did Tom White feel upon beginning his interrogation of William Hale?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In what way does Killers of the Flower Moon put forth humanist messages and for what purpose does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Perform a feminist criticism of the book Killers of the Flower Moon and provide an ample number of concrete details to support your points.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the significance of the book's title. What is the author's purpose in naming both the origin of the FBI and the Osage murders as topics within the book's title? How does the title connect to themes present within the book?
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