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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 does Ray Johnson do when he hears about what happened?
(a) Quits his job to live on the settlement.
(b) Decides to avenge the deaths.
(c) Comes home to file a lawsuit.
(d) Decides to stay in Africa.

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

3. Who is Pedro Gutierrez?
(a) Mailman at Ray Johnson's law firm.
(b) Mechanic at Walter Bowman's hangar.
(c) Doctor at Ray Johnson's office.
(d) Janitor in Ray Johnson's apartment building.

4. What is Ad Topperwine testing in the first chapter?
(a) An automatic rifle.
(b) A new semi-automatic rifle.
(c) A semi-automatic pistol.
(d) An automatic artillery piece.

5. What theme runs through the first chapter?
(a) Individuals needing to protect themselves from the government.
(b) The need for education regarding gun use.
(c) People creating their own justice with guns.
(d) Government needing to regulate the production of guns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ray Johnson's passion?

2. Cameron Wilcox dies of _____________.

3. Where does Harold Gaines live?

4. When does Irwin Mann have to flee?

5. What does Ray Johnson do for Pedro Gutierrez?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the allegory of Nazi Germany for American readers?

2. Who is Walter Bowman?

3. How does the repeal of Prohibition affect the implementation of gun laws in the United States, according to the book?

4. What happened to Rosa Gutierrez?

5. What is Richard Gaines doing in 1959?

6. Describe Henry Bowman's childhood.

7. Who is Ad Topperwine?

8. What happens to Irwin Mann in Poland?

9. What do Ad Topperwine and John Browning have in common?

10. How does John Ross treat the United States government's violence against veterans and the Nazi government's persecution of Jews differently?

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