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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. What genre is 'Unintended Consequences'?
(a) Memoir.
(b) Non-fiction.
(c) Historical fiction.
(d) Science fiction.

2. Who is Zofia?
(a) An American Jew.
(b) A Polish Jew.
(c) A German Jew.
(d) A Russian Jew.

3. What does Henry Bowman explain about President Kennedy's assassination?
(a) How Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle could not have killed the President.
(b) How Lee Harvey Oswald must have had conspirators.
(c) How Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle could have hit each of the people in the car.
(d) How Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle worked.

4. Who is Irwin Mann?
(a) Zofia's husband.
(b) Zofia's professor.
(c) Zofia's brother-in-law.
(d) Zofia's murderer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lieutenant Cameron Wilcox?

2. What dream is Ray Johnson cherishing when he starts to work?

3. What does Henry Bowman learn a lot about?

4. What do families have to adjust to after the war in the second chapter?

5. How did this blow affect Henry Bowman?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Ray Johnson looking forward to in 1959?

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

4. Who is Cameron Wilcox?

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

6. What happens to Zofia's family?

7. Who is Max Collins?

8. Who is Ray Johnson?

9. Why was the Firearms Act struck down?

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

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