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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are federal agents looking for in the first chapter?

2. Who is Catherine Bowman?

3. What does Ray Johnson learn about Pedro Gutierrez?

4. What does Ray Johnson do for Pedro Gutierrez?

5. What law was repealed during the first chapter "Seeds"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Walter Bowman?

2. Who is Cameron Wilcox?

3. Who is Harold Gaines?

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

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

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

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

8. What happens to Zofia's family?

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

10. Who is Max Collins?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would this book be different if were told from the perspective of a black man, a woman, or someone else? How would Native Americans tell this story differently? How is the story limited by being told about a white man?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate your own reading of 'Unintended Consequences.' Did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

Essay Topic 3

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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