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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 Alex Neuman's feelings about the FBI and ATF Bureau?

2. What is Blair's ultimate goal?

3. Whom does Wilson Blair call after his run-in with Henry Bowman?

4. Where are Henry Bowman and Allen Kane planning to go on their trip out West?

5. What is the topic of Henry Bowman's high school economics class paper?

Short Essay Questions

1. What regulation is passed in 1968?

2. What does Henry Bowman do to help Cindy Caswell get cash?

3. Describe Ray Johnson's return to the United States.

4. Describe Henry Bowman's attack and its consequences.

5. How has the government tried to regulate guns without imposing new laws?

6. What happens when Henry Bowman and Cindy Caswell meet?

7. What happens around the time that Cindy Caswell's friend April is assaulted?

8. How has the atmosphere with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms changed by 1982?

9. Describe Richard Gaines's path after college.

10. What happens at the pigeon shoot in Nevada?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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

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