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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What big blow does Henry Bowman suffer as a teenager?
(a) His parents divorce.
(b) A car wreck.
(c) His father dying of cancer.
(d) A hunting accident.

2. Where did Ray Johnson begin to work?
(a) A San Francisco firm.
(b) A Chicago firm.
(c) A New York firm.
(d) A Washington D.C. firm.

3. Where did Irwin Mann get the weapons he learns to use?
(a) Nazis.
(b) He owned them from childhood.
(c) The Army.
(d) He stole them.

4. Where did Ray Johnson get his degree?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Columbia.

5. What opposition do the court cases set up?
(a) Between gun owners and gun manufacturers.
(b) Between law enforcement and gun owners.
(c) Between private citizens and government agents.
(d) Between the federal government and gun culture.

6. Who gives Henry Bowman his first guns?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) His brother.
(d) His grandfather.

7. How does Irwin Mann learn to use weapons?
(a) He learned as a child.
(b) He learns from a Nazi officer.
(c) He learns in the Army.
(d) He teaches himself.

8. What does Henry Bowman learn a lot about?
(a) Historical figures.
(b) Types of guns.
(c) Breeds of horses.
(d) Inventors of guns.

9. Henry Bowman's father tells Henry that he might have to protect ___________.
(a) His country.
(b) His family.
(c) His property.
(d) His Second Amendment rights.

10. After the war, where does Walter Bowman take what he made?
(a) To St. Louis.
(b) To New York.
(c) To San Francisco.
(d) To Texas.

11. Who is Max Collins?
(a) Zofia's murderer.
(b) Zofia's brother-in-law.
(c) Zofia's husband.
(d) Zofia's professor.

12. Where is Irwin Mann transported in Chapter Two?
(a) A training facility in Florida.
(b) Warsaw Ghetto.
(c) A refugee camp outside Berlin.
(d) New York.

13. What genre is 'Unintended Consequences'?
(a) Science fiction.
(b) Memoir.
(c) Non-fiction.
(d) Historical fiction.

14. What is Ray Johnson's passion?
(a) Hunting.
(b) Horseback riding.
(c) Running.
(d) Flying.

15. For what topic does the first chapter "Seeds" lay the foundation for?
(a) Modern legal theory.
(b) Postmodern political regulations.
(c) Modern terrorism.
(d) Modern gun culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do families have to adjust to after the war in the second chapter?

2. What is Ross emphasizing by placing his focus on this narrative?

3. Who is Zofia?

4. What does Ad Topperwine have in common with the designer?

5. Where did the wreck which Max Collins survived take place?

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