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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 do Ad Topperwine and the designer support?

2. What is Henry Bowman's primary goal?

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

4. For what topic does the first chapter "Seeds" lay the foundation for?

5. Where did Irwin Mann get the weapons he learns to use?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Cameron Wilcox?

3. Who is Harold Gaines?

4. Who is Ad Topperwine?

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

6. Who is Ray Johnson?

7. Who is Walter Bowman?

8. What happened to Rosa Gutierrez?

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

10. Who is Max Collins?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Debate the interpretation of the Second Amendment. Does it allow concealed weapons? Assault rifles? What role should the government have in regulating these things?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

How realistic is this book? What parts are not believable? What leaps of faith does the author require of the reader? Are these leaps painful to make? What do these leaps allow the author to do?

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