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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Ray Johnson buy when he gets money as a gift?
(a) A plane ticket to Africa.
(b) Parts for his airplane.
(c) A gun.
(d) A week in a hunting cabin.

4. Who is Buell Jenkins?
(a) An airplane mechanic.
(b) A shoe salesman.
(c) A Polish Jew.
(d) A Senator.

5. Who do the federal agents find?
(a) Two brothers.
(b) One judge.
(c) A woman.
(d) A family.

6. What does Irwin Mann organize in the place he's transported to?
(a) A theatre group.
(b) A flight squadron.
(c) A training schedule.
(d) Resistance.

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

8. What does the Gutierrez family receive at the end of Chapter Two?
(a) Deportation papers.
(b) A subpoena.
(c) A new gun.
(d) A damaged baby.

9. Henry Bowman travels around to ______________.
(a) Shooting matches.
(b) Riding competitions.
(c) Hunting grounds.
(d) Rodeos.

10. Cameron Wilcox returns from war with ______________.
(a) A bag of guns.
(b) Foreign money.
(c) Uniforms of people he had killed.
(d) Trophies from battle, including human body parts.

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

12. What comes into focus as the narrative moves closer to World War II?
(a) Harassment of Southern blacks.
(b) Government overreach.
(c) Persecution of Jews.
(d) Persecution of Native Americans.

13. Ray Johnson's degree was in ___________.
(a) Animal husbandry.
(b) Law.
(c) Political science.
(d) Medicine.

14. How did Max Collins escape after the wreck?
(a) He hid in the bushes.
(b) He hopped a train.
(c) He stayed with a family.
(d) He shot the commander looking for him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What element in the story is taking place in the second chapter?

2. Who is Catherine Bowman?

3. For what topic does the first chapter "Seeds" lay the foundation for?

4. What does Ray Johnson learn about Pedro Gutierrez?

5. What genre is 'Unintended Consequences'?

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