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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who hired a hitman to murder Katherine Cole, Kelsie Morrison's former wife, "who was Osage and had agreed to testify for the prosecution" (200)?
(a) Henry Grammer.
(b) Sheriff Freas.
(c) Kelsie Morrison.
(d) Henry Roan.

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

3. What was Kelsie Morrison's answer when he was asked what he had done directly after shooting Anna in the head?
(a) He said he had gone to the bar to celebrate.
(b) He said he had succumbed to a nervous breakdown.
(c) He said he had become frozen with fear.
(d) He said he had gone home and had eaten supper.

4. 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.

5. 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?
(a) Restricted Osage tribe members.
(b) The white outlaws of the Osage Hills.
(c) Unrestricted Osage tribe members.
(d) The guardians of the restricted Osage tribe members.

Short Answer 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?

2. What was William Hale's reaction to the judge's ruling that the case could be adjudicated only in state court?

3. Even though Burt Lawson turned down Ernest Burkhart's offer twice, what caused him to finally relent and agree to bomb Bill Smith's house?

4. A government study estimated that prior to 1925, how much money had been stolen from adult Osage wards by their appointed white guardians?

5. What philosophy of thinking did J. Edgar Hoover adopt in the creation of his overhauled Bureau of Investigation?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was John Ramsey's confession laden with the era's racist views held by whites about Native Americans?

2. What was Tom White's reaction to discovering that so many possible witnesses could no longer testify because they were dead?

3. What did Tom White's investigation into the system of Osage guardianship reveal?

4. How did Tom White release the pent-up frustration created by his investigation of William Hale's involvement in the Osage murders?

5. What emotions did Tom White feel upon beginning his interrogation of William Hale?

6. What does the author mean when he describes the Shoun brothers as "seemingly ubiquitous" (158) when he discusses their involvement in Henry Roan's insurance policy dealings?

7. How did the media portray Mollie Burkhart during the trial of Ernest Burkhart and William Hale?

8. What is the meaning of the title of Chapter 12, A Wilderness of Mirrors?

9. What was the reaction of the public to the news of how deep the conspiracy against the Osage had actually gone?

10. What were the reasons for William Hale's certainty that he would not be convicted of murder?

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