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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Weapon, pages 33 to 66.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does Tim Harrow have hidden in his mobile home?
(a) Only a few dollars
(b) None
(c) Over one million dollars in cash and gold
(d) About twenty thousand dollars in cash and gold

2. What color is the barrel for Cornish McManus' "sweet" rifle when he is completely finished with it?
(a) A deep blue
(b) He leaves it in the white
(c) Neary black
(d) A deep plum-brown

3. On the rifle that Cornish McManus builds, what is the name of the part that holds the flint?
(a) The frizzen
(b) The hammer
(c) The bore
(d) The patch box

4. What material does Cornish McManus use to brown the exterior surface of a barrel?
(a) Shoe polish
(b) Stain
(c) Saltwater
(d) Cow's urine

5. What is the irregular mark called that is left on a bullet after it is cast?
(a) The sprue
(b) The burr
(c) The bite
(d) Lucifer's footprint

Short Answer Questions

1. Who first buys the "sweet" rifle from Cornish McManus?

2. Where does the "sweet" rifle remain from c. 1776 until 1993?

3. In New York, John Byam often shoots and kills English soldiers in the opposite lines at what range?

4. Although he buys and sells guns constantly, Tim Harrow never has fewer than how many guns?

5. According to the novel, what does a faster rate of spin do for a projectile?

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