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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 car wreck.
(b) A train wreck.
(c) A shipwreck.
(d) A plane crash.

2. What do Ad Topperwine and the designer support?
(a) Government gun regulation.
(b) Individual gun ownership.
(c) Selling weapons to foreign countries.
(d) Arming insurgencies.

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

4. Who gives Henry Bowman his first guns?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His brother.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

5. What law does a federal judge strike down in freeing the person or people arrested in the first chapter?
(a) The Firearms Act.
(b) The Homestead Act.
(c) The Immigration Act.
(d) Prohibition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Ray Johnson graduating from in 1959?

2. How did Max Collins escape after the wreck?

3. Where is Irwin Mann transported in Chapter Two?

4. What big blow does Henry Bowman suffer as a teenager?

5. What does Henry Bowman learn a lot about?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Richard Gaines doing in 1959?

3. What happens to Zofia in the first chapter "Seeds"?

4. Who is Ad Topperwine?

5. What do Ad Topperwine and John Browning have in common?

6. What is Henry Bowman fascinated with when we meet him in 1959?

7. How does John Ross turn our focus to guns in World War II?

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

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

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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