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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are federal agents looking for in the first chapter?
(a) Illegal stills.
(b) Illegal firearms.
(c) Illegal immigrants.
(d) Ku Klux Klansmen.

2. When does Irwin Mann have to flee?
(a) When his unit is ambushed.
(b) When Nazis come to his home.
(c) When federal agents come to his home.
(d) When the resistance fails.

3. What talent saved Max Collins?
(a) Orienteering.
(b) Hotwiring.
(c) Tracking.
(d) Sharp shooting.

4. What element in the story is taking place in the second chapter?
(a) Rising action.
(b) Denouement.
(c) Falling Action.
(d) Introduction.

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 the federal government and gun culture.
(d) Between private citizens and government agents.

6. What branch of the military was Max Collins in?
(a) Air Force.
(b) Navy.
(c) Army.
(d) Marines.

7. What do families have to adjust to after the war in the second chapter?
(a) Political upheaval.
(b) Racial violence.
(c) Peacetime routines.
(d) Economic depression.

8. Where did the wreck which Max Collins survived take place?
(a) The Warsaw Ghetto.
(b) Behind enemy lines.
(c) New York.
(d) Florida.

9. In what state does a citizen need to have two letters of recommendation in order to buy a gun?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) New Hampshire.
(d) Iowa.

10. How old is Ray Johnson in Chapter Two?
(a) Second grade.
(b) Tenth grade.
(c) Eighth grade.
(d) Twelfth grade.

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

12. Where does Harold Gaines live?
(a) Turners Falls.
(b) St. Louis.
(c) Providence.
(d) Amarillo.

13. Who is Catherine Bowman?
(a) Irwin Mann's sister-in-law.
(b) Max Collins' sister.
(c) Walter Bowman's mother.
(d) Irwin Mann's sister.

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

15. Who is Richard Gaines?
(a) A mechanic in Walter Bowman's company.
(b) A shoe salesman.
(c) A lawyer in Ray Johnson's firm.
(d) A teenager in St. Louis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What theme runs through the first chapter?

2. Where did Ray Johnson begin to work?

3. Who do the federal agents find?

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

5. What does Henry Bowman learn a lot about?

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