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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. Max Collins is the sole survivor of _____________.
(a) A train wreck.
(b) A shipwreck.
(c) A car wreck.
(d) A plane crash.

2. What dream is Ray Johnson cherishing when he starts to work?
(a) A guided hunting trip in Russia.
(b) Hunting in the Rockies.
(c) Hunting with falcons.
(d) An African safari.

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

4. How does Irwin Mann learn to use weapons?
(a) He learned as a child.
(b) He learns from a Nazi officer.
(c) He teaches himself.
(d) He learns in the Army.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry Bowman's father tell him he needs to do as he grows up?

2. What law does a federal judge strike down in freeing the person or people arrested in the first chapter?

3. What happens during Ray Johnson's trip?

4. Ray Johnson's degree was in ___________.

5. Whom does Henry Bowman NOT start writing to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Henry Bowman say about the assassination of President Kennedy?

3. What is Richard Gaines doing in 1959?

4. What is Henry Bowman's goal in life as a young person?

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

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

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

8. What law do Henry Bowman and his friends resent?

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

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

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