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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. Who is Catherine Bowman?

2. Where did the wreck which Max Collins survived take place?

3. What charges can the federal agents NOT arrest this person or these people on?

4. What does Henry Bowman do with his father in 1959?

5. How does Irwin Mann learn to use weapons?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Irwin Mann in Poland?

3. What had Ray Johnson just finished when we see him in 1959?

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

5. Who is the Gutierrez family?

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

7. Who is Ray Johnson?

8. Why was the Firearms Act struck down?

9. Who is Walter Bowman?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what degree is this book internally consistent? How much does it follow the rules it lays out? Where does it diverge from those rules?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the claim that Henry Bowman is an American hero. How does he rate compared to other American heroes? What traits are heroic? What traits are tragic or anti-heroic?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate the claim that Henry Bowman is not a patriot but a vigilante and renegade who stands not for civilization but for lawlessness.

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