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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chronicle Three: The Reporter, Chapters 23-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what famous murder case were handwriting and document analysis first instrumentally used?
(a) H.H. Holmes.
(b) Leopold and Loeb.
(c) The Boston Strangler.
(d) Jack the Ripper.

2. In 1926, Ernest Burkhart was sentenced to what punishment for his crimes?
(a) Life imprisonment and hard labor.
(b) The death penalty.
(c) Fifteen to twenty years in prison.
(d) Forty years in prison without the possibility of parole.

3. About what crime did Ernest forever claim to have had no prior knowledge?
(a) The shooting of Anna.
(b) Charles Whitehorn's murder.
(c) The pushing of W.W. Vaughn from the train.
(d) The attempts to poison Mollie.

4. Who was the sitting U.S. president when the Louisiana Purchase was enacted?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) James Madison.
(d) George Washington.

5. What was William Hale's reaction to the judge's ruling that the case could be adjudicated only in state court?
(a) He screamed obscenities at the judge.
(b) He celebrated.
(c) He smirked at Mollie Burkhart.
(d) He burst into tears.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Osage refer to which month as "the time of the flower-killing moon" (5)?

3. How long after Anna's murder did her mother Lizzie die of a "peculiar wasting illness" (35)?

4. What happened after Bill Smith confided in several people that he was getting somewhere with his detective work?

5. Who acted as H.G. Burt's longtime attorney?

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