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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. Where does the "sweet" rifle remain from c. 1776 until 1993?
(a) In the personal collection of Tim Harrow
(b) In a museum
(c) In a carriage in a garage
(d) In an attic in a house in Connecticut

2. According to the novel, what is the curve of a bullet's nose called?
(a) Hollow point
(b) Sugar loaf
(c) The snout
(d) The secant ogive

3. Where does Tim Harrow live?
(a) He is homeless
(b) In Arkansas
(c) In a motor home that is always on the move
(d) In a trailer park in New York

4. After his apprenticeship is complete, Cornish McManus is referred to as what?
(a) Rifle gunsmith
(b) Journeyman gunsmith
(c) Master gunsmith
(d) Apprentice gunsmith

5. What is the longitudinal exterior shape of the barrel of Cornish McManus' "sweet" rifle?
(a) Octagonal
(b) Hexagonal
(c) Square
(d) Round

Short Answer Questions

1. What material does Cornish McManus use to brown the exterior surface of a barrel?

2. What does Harv Kline do with the "sweet" rifle?

3. What tall tale does Tim Harrow make up about the "sweet" rifle that, unbeknownst to him, is actually true?

4. Why does Tim Harrow stop in a small town in Missouri?

5. How many rifling grooves does Cornish McManus cut in the barrel of his "sweet" rifle?

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