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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. In what state does a citizen need to have two letters of recommendation in order to buy a gun?

2. Where did Ray Johnson begin to work?

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

4. Where does Ray Johnson live?

5. Where was Cameron Wilcox involved in a veterans' march?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Richard Gaines doing in 1959?

2. Who is Walter Bowman?

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

4. Who is Max Collins?

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

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

7. Describe Henry Bowman's childhood.

8. What happened to Rosa Gutierrez?

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

10. Who is Ad Topperwine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate Henry Bowman's fears of the government. Are they rational and real, or are they fictional and unrealistic? Is Henry Bowman right to want to hold the law in his own hands?

Essay Topic 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence?

Essay Topic 3

Research gun crimes in America and the contribution of gun shows to crimes with illegal guns. Are gun shows the problem or the solution, or is the problem elsewhere?

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