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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Bill Smith name as the executor of his slain wife Rita's will as he lay upon his deathbed?

2. Tom White discovered that the Shoun brothers had been giving Mollie injections that were supposed to contain what substance?

3. How much did Ernest Burkhart offer to pay Burt Lawson for murdering Bill Smith?

4. Which one of Tom White's brothers was gunned down when he went to arrest a pair of deserters in East Texas?

5. What was Mollie's response when the attorney assisting the prosecution asked her if she loved her husband?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the Shoun doctors refrain from summoning the sheriff or a prosecutor in favor of summoning Bill Smith's personal attorney as Bill Smith lay upon his deathbed?

3. What turned out to be the true events leading up to the bombing of the Smiths' home?

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

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

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

7. What evidence does the author provide to support his claim that Tom White "was feeling pressure not just from Hoover" (171)?

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

9. 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?

10. How were the Texas Rangers viewed differently by white Texans than they were viewed by people of color?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of the book's title. What is the author's purpose in naming both the origin of the FBI and the Osage murders as topics within the book's title? How does the title connect to themes present within the book?

Essay Topic 2

Write a persuasive essay convincing your school's Social Studies department chair that the Osage murders are a topic that students should learn about in History classes.

Essay Topic 3

What is Grann's message regarding the press within the book Killers of the Flower Moon?

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