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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When William Hale tried to take out an insurance policy on Henry Roan, he was told that he could only do so if what condition were true?
(a) If William Hale paid the policy premiums.
(b) If Henry Roan were declared to be restricted.
(c) If Henry Roan owed William Hale a great deal of money.
(d) If Henry Roan divorced his wife.
2. In 1926, Ernest Burkhart was sentenced to what punishment for his crimes?
(a) The death penalty.
(b) Life imprisonment and hard labor.
(c) Fifteen to twenty years in prison.
(d) Forty years in prison without the possibility of parole.
3. William Hale once said, "I, like many other good men, believed it would be only a short time until Congress would pass a law" (160) that permitted what practice?
(a) Lynchings.
(b) Gambling on reservation lands.
(c) The sale of headrights.
(d) Alcohol sales on reservation lands.
4. Who did Bill Smith name as the executor of his slain wife Rita's will as he lay upon his deathbed?
(a) William Hale.
(b) Mollie Burkhart.
(c) James Shoun.
(d) David Shoun.
5. About what crime did Ernest forever claim to have had no prior knowledge?
(a) Charles Whitehorn's murder.
(b) The shooting of Anna.
(c) The pushing of W.W. Vaughn from the train.
(d) The attempts to poison Mollie.
6. In what year was Tom White's father elected as county sheriff?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1881.
(d) 1901.
7. What was NOT one of the categories assessed on the Bureau of Investigation's Efficiency Rating sheets?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Judgment.
(c) Fairness.
(d) Personal Appearance.
8. What philosophy of thinking did J. Edgar Hoover adopt in the creation of his overhauled Bureau of Investigation?
(a) Populism.
(b) Progressivism.
(c) Collectivism.
(d) Socialism.
9. What was Mollie's response when the attorney assisting the prosecution asked her if she loved her husband?
(a) Yes.
(b) A little.
(c) Never again.
(d) No.
10. When the gas station worker revealed to the undercover operative that she knew who had set William Hale's fields on fire, whom did she name as the culprit?
(a) Dudley White.
(b) William Hale.
(c) Bill Smith.
(d) Bryan Burkhart.
11. How old was Tom White when he watched his father execute a criminal?
(a) 10.
(b) 13.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.
12. What reason did Henry Roan's widow give for not drinking the whiskey brought to her by William Hale?
(a) She was afraid it was poisoned.
(b) She dropped it on the ground and broke it.
(c) She spurned the use of alcohol.
(d) She needed a gift to bring to her neighbor, so she gave it away.
13. Whom did Ernest Burkhart name as the murderer of Henry Roan?
(a) Asa Kirby.
(b) Henry Grammer.
(c) William Hale.
(d) John Ramsey.
14. To what event did the euphemism "necktie party" (139) refer?
(a) Black tie affairs.
(b) Communal dinners.
(c) Lynchings.
(d) Legal hangings.
15. In what organization did Tom White enlist when he was 24?
(a) The Masons.
(b) The Anti-Indian Militia.
(c) The Texas Rangers.
(d) The Daughters of the American Revolution.
Short Answer Questions
1. What changed William Hale's initial reaction to the news that his case would have to be tried in state court?
2. How much insurance money was collected upon the burning of William Hale's fields?
3. What was William Hale's reaction to the judge's ruling that the case could be adjudicated only in state court?
4. Once Tom White realized that corrupt white citizens would not implicate one another, what group did he turn to next in his quest to solve the Osage murders?
5. Before joining the Justice Department, J. Edgar Hoover had been a clerk at what location?
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