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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) William Hale.
(b) His lawyer.
(c) David Shoun.
(d) James Shoun.

2. Who did Pike claim had hired him to perform his required task?
(a) J. Edgar Hoover.
(b) Ernest Burkhart.
(c) Tom White.
(d) William Hale.

3. When Ernest Burkhart decided to tell the whole truth, how did he escape from his uncle's control?
(a) He hired a hitman to kill his uncle.
(b) He decided to represent himself.
(c) He fired the lawyers that his uncle had hired for him.
(d) He requested to be placed in a different jail than his uncle.

4. Who did Bill Smith name as the executor of his slain wife Rita's will as he lay upon his deathbed?
(a) Mollie Burkhart.
(b) William Hale.
(c) David Shoun.
(d) James Shoun.

5. What outrageous claim did William Hale make when he testified on his own behalf?
(a) He claimed that Henry Roan had committed suicide.
(b) He claimed that Tom White and his agents had brutally coerced his confession from him using torture.
(c) He claimed that his answers would incriminate him.
(d) He claimed that Ernest Burkhart was jealous of him and wanted to steal William Hale's wife.

6. What event resulted in putting a stop to the campaign to fire Tom White and his men?
(a) Tom White was killed in the line of duty.
(b) The governor of Oklahoma was assassinated.
(c) J. Edgar Hoover was given a commendation by the U.S. government.
(d) Ernest Burkhart made a full confession.

7. What expected revelation was made the day after Ernest's private conversations with another man's lawyers?
(a) Mollie Burkhart had gone missing.
(b) William Hale had changed his plea.
(c) Ernest had committed suicide.
(d) Ernest had withdrawn his offer to testify for the state and would now testify for the defense.

8. How old was Mollie's daughter Anna when she mysteriously died?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Six.

9. In what year were warrants issued for William Hale and Ernest Burkhart's arrests in the murders of Bill Smith, Rita Smith, and Nettie Brookshire?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1921.

10. What was Mollie's response when the attorney assisting the prosecution asked her if she loved her husband?
(a) A little.
(b) No.
(c) Never again.
(d) Yes.

11. Tom White discovered that the Shoun brothers had been giving Mollie injections that were supposed to contain what substance?
(a) Smallpox vaccinations.
(b) Vitamin B.
(c) Morphine.
(d) Insulin.

12. 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 Henry Roan divorced his wife.
(b) If William Hale paid the policy premiums.
(c) If Henry Roan were declared to be restricted.
(d) If Henry Roan owed William Hale a great deal of money.

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

14. Tom White was told by Mollie's priest that she sent him a secret message stating what?
(a) That she wished to be given last rites in case anything happened to her.
(b) That she was afraid someone was trying to poison her.
(c) That she wanted permission to annul her marriage to Ernest.
(d) That she wanted to return to church.

15. Which one of Tom White's brothers was gunned down when he went to arrest a pair of deserters in East Texas?
(a) Coley.
(b) Doc.
(c) N.P.
(d) Dudley.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1926, Ernest Burkhart was sentenced to what punishment for his crimes?

2. With whom did Tom White and the prosecutors work in order to keep William Hale and John Ramsey behind bars by filing state charges against them for the bombing murders?

3. How old was Tom White when his mother died?

4. What reason did Henry Roan's widow give for not drinking the whiskey brought to her by William Hale?

5. The author states that when William Hale turned himself in to Sheriff Freas, he looked as if he were going where?

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