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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. What method did Tom White's father use to execute a criminal while his son Tom White watched?
(a) Guillotine.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Stoning.
(d) Electrocution.

2. When the undercover operative talked to the worker at the Fairfax gas station, who did she name as controlling all aspects of life in the area?
(a) David Shoun.
(b) Tom White.
(c) William Hale.
(d) Ernest Burkhart.

3. What happened to prevent the hired gunman from killing Katherine Cole?
(a) He decided not to go through with it and then told the police about the plot.
(b) William Hale stabbed him to death.
(c) He was shot.
(d) He disappeared.

4. Where did Tom White have to travel in order to interview Burt Lawson about the Osage murders?
(a) To Utah.
(b) To the Dominican Republic.
(c) To Colorado.
(d) To the McAlester state penitentiary.

5. The author states that when William Hale turned himself in to Sheriff Freas, he looked as if he were going where?
(a) To heaven.
(b) To church.
(c) To a formal party.
(d) To his execution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lit the fuse to the bomb under the Smiths' home?

2. To whom did Anna Brown bequeath nearly all her wealth upon her death?

3. 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?

4. In what town were John Ramsey and William Hale tried for murder?

5. To what organization did Tom White return after his brother was gunned down in East Texas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Osage man mean when he told a reporter, "Tell everybody, when you write your story, that they're scalping our souls out here" (156)?

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

3. When William Hale responded to John Ramsey's panic at being tried for the murder of Henry Roan, what did William Hale say to reassure him?

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

5. To what plan is the author referring when he states, "the plan was so brazen, so sinister, that it was hard to fathom" (162)?

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

7. The author surmises that if widely circulated rumors are true, then Hale had killed his own unborn baby. What were these conditions?

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

9. 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?

10. How is paradox apparent within the question of which government entity had jurisdiction over the Osage murders?

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