Chapters 23-25 in Killers of the Flower Moon
Grann, David. Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder, and the Birth of the FBI. Simon & Schuster, 2017.
QUESTION 1.How long did the “Reign of Terror” last?
a.3 years
b.2 years
c.4 years
d.5 years
QUESTION 2.What is the new energy source Grann sees on Osage land?
a.Wind farm
b.Oil derricks
c.Ethynol plants
d.Solar farm
QUESTION 3.Who did Rosa Vaughan sue in civil court for embezzling money from her husband’s estate?
a.James and David Shoun
b.William Hale
c.H. G. Burt
d.Scott Mathis
QUESTION 4.Which Osage woman, who was noted as the wealthiest, was locked in her house, beaten and drugged by her husband?
a.Mary Elkins
b.Mary Lewis
c.Sybil Bolton
d.Hlu-ah-to-me
QUESTION 5.Who does Mary Jo Webb say provided the poison that killed countless Osage?
a.Harve Freas
b.Scott Mathis
c.James and David Shoun
d.William Hale
QUESTION 6.How did Paul Peace die?
a.He was shot in the back of the head.
b.His house was blown up
c.He was killed in a hit-and-run car accident
d.He was poisoned.
QUESTION 7.After looking through the records, who does Grann suspect killed Charles Whitehorn?
a.William Hale, David Shoun, and James Shoun
b.Hattie Whitehead, LeRoy Smitherman, and Minnie Savage
c.William Hale, Bryan Burkhart, and Ernest Burkhart
d.Bryan Burkhart, Kelsie Morrison, and William Hale
QUESTION 8.In a letter written from jail in 1931, what did William Hale refer to himself as?
a.The savior of the Osage
b.The devil
c.A broken man
d.A true friend to the Osage
QUESTION 9.Which two murders does Grann note remain unsolved, the killers getting off “scot-free”?
a.Charles Whitehorn and William Stepson
b.W. W. Vaughan and Barney McBride
c.Bill and Rita Smith’s
d.Lizzie (Mollie’s mother) and Minnie (Mollie’s sister)
QUESTION 10.Whose murder did Grann learn about in the Pawhuska library?
a.Charles Whitehorn
b.Minnie Brown
c.Anna Burkhart
d.Mary DeNoya-Bellieu-Lewis