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

2. Who was Ad Topperwine?
(a) A hunter.
(b) A gun dealer.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A sharpshooter.

3. How does Irwin Mann escape?
(a) On a truck.
(b) Through the sewers.
(c) Into the woods.
(d) In a herd of sheep.

4. What happens during Ray Johnson's trip?
(a) His parents are killed.
(b) He gets involved with a murder.
(c) Pedro Gutierrez's child dies.
(d) Henry Bowman's father dies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What charges can the federal agents use?

2. What does Henry Bowman do with his father in 1959?

3. Who is Zofia?

4. What does Ray Johnson buy when he gets money as a gift?

5. How does Irwin Mann learn to use weapons?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Henry Bowman fascinated with when we meet him in 1959?

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

3. What does Ray Johnson do after finishing his graduate degree?

4. What happens to Zofia in the first chapter "Seeds"?

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

6. Who is Ad Topperwine?

7. Who are Henry Bowman's friends as a teenager?

8. What happens to Zofia's family?

9. What is Walter Bowman's relationship with Max Collins?

10. Why was the Firearms Act struck down?

(see the answer keys)

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