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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Osage land auction record rose to nearly $14 million, a reporter remarked in an article, "The Osage Indians are becoming so rich that" (76) what?
(a) They would soon be able to leave the country altogether.
(b) Something would have to be done about it.
(c) They were in danger of overstepping their bounds.
(d) Their lives were now worth nothing.

2. Mollie stated that the last time she had seen Anna, it was at what time of day?
(a) Noon.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Sundown.
(d) Sunrise.

3. What fact made the authorities certain that W.W. Vaughn's disappearance from his train was the result of foul play?
(a) A ransom note was left on his train seat.
(b) There was broken glass and blood on his train seat.
(c) Poison residue was found in his drink glass.
(d) W.W. Vaughn's luggage was still on the train.

4. In which settlement did Mollie and her family live within the Osage reservation?
(a) Whizbang.
(b) Gray Horse.
(c) Sutpen.
(d) Pawhuska.

5. What happened after Bill Smith confided in several people that he was getting somewhere with his detective work?
(a) He was set on fire.
(b) He went missing and was eventually declared dead.
(c) His house was bombed.
(d) He was shot.

6. To whom did Mollie turn when the local officials expressed little interest in investigating Anna's murder?
(a) Tom White.
(b) William Hale.
(c) Harve Freas.
(d) Ernest Burkhart.

7. Who was the only one to survive the bombing of the Smiths' home, but only lived for four days?
(a) Rita Smith.
(b) Bill Smith.
(c) Mollie Burkhart.
(d) Nettie Brookshire.

8. Who was Mollie's appointed financial guardian?
(a) William Hale.
(b) Bill Smith.
(c) Bryan Burkhart.
(d) Ernest Burkhart.

9. Harve M. Freas was the sheriff of what county at the time of Anna's death?
(a) Canadian County.
(b) Okfuskee County.
(c) Osage County.
(d) Roger Mills County.

10. In what year was the Louisiana Purchase enacted, "which contained lands dominated by the Osage" (37)?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1816.

11. Within how many years of the Louisiana Purchase were the Osage forced by the U.S. government to "relinquish their territory between the Arkansas River and the Missouri River" (37)?
(a) Four.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Two.
(d) Ten.

12. What item did Mollie and her family place within Anna's coffin on the day of her funeral, in keeping with Osage beliefs?
(a) Money.
(b) Silver.
(c) Food.
(d) Blankets.

13. What item of Anna's was found at the murder scene and was given to Anna's mother?
(a) A ring.
(b) A bracelet.
(c) A locket.
(d) An earring.

14. Which of the following was an action the lawmen took upon finding Anna's body?
(a) Dusted the whiskey bottle for fingerprints.
(b) Detected tire marks in the soil.
(c) Made a cast impression of the tire tracks.
(d) Took photographs of the scene.

15. What quality of the land convinced the Osage chief Wah-Ti-An-Kah and others in the tribe to purchase it as their new homeland?
(a) It was lush and verdant, so the tribe could practice agriculture.
(b) It was large enough to accommodate the tribe's biannual buffalo hunts.
(c) It was rocky and infertile, so white settlers would leave the tribe alone.
(d) It was oil-rich.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Mollie's husband?

2. How was William Hale related to Bryan Burkhart?

3. In what location of Kansas were the Osage forced to settle once they had been forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in Oklahoma?

4. Which of Mollie's sisters had died three years before the beginning of the narrative?

5. Who did Henry Roan consider to be his best friend?

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