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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ray Johnson do after the Pedro Gutierrez case?

2. What is Ad Topperwine testing in the first chapter?

3. Who do the federal agents find?

4. When does Cameron Wilcox suffer personal disasters?

5. Who is Max Collins?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Irwin Mann in Poland?

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 happens to Zofia's family?

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

5. How does John Ross turn our focus to guns in World War II?

6. Who is Walter Bowman?

7. What had Ray Johnson just finished when we see him in 1959?

8. What is Richard Gaines doing in 1959?

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

10. Who is the Gutierrez family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate the proposition that as societies grow more complex, their members have to make more and more sacrifices of personal liberty for the sake of social peace.

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the claim that Henry Bowman is not a patriot but a vigilante and renegade who stands not for civilization but for lawlessness.

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate the use of sex in 'Unintended Consequences.' How does it contribute to the book? How does Henry Bowman's attack and rape make the reader feel? How does it affect the reader's sympathies?

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