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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Growing Up: Here and There, D-Day and All That, and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Mike Royko spent nights in a pitch-black apartment as a child during the war?
(a) His parents were too poor to pay for electricity.
(b) The government cut off electricity.
(c) The air raid wardens called for blackouts.
(d) Chicago was under attack.

2. What was a Victory Garden?
(a) A garden shaped like a V for victory.
(b) A communal vegetable garden.
(c) A military garden.
(d) A communal flower garden.

3. Why were the Japanese pleased when American officers chose their homes to occupy?
(a) It meant they would get rent payments.
(b) It meant their homes were superior.
(c) It meant they would receive reparations.
(d) It meant they would have plenty of food.

4. Why was Peggy Terry happy during the war?
(a) She loved her job.
(b) Shewanted to help defeat Hitler.
(c) For the first time, she had enough money.
(d) She enjoyed the sense of camaraderie.

5. How did Ursula Bender feel about the war as a six-year-old child?
(a) It was an exciting adventure.
(b) It was a good learning experience.
(c) It was a terrifying nightmare.
(d) It went by without her notice.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Robert Rasmus feel looking at the faces of the German dead?

2. How was Sheril Cunning's mother's war experience like the New York Stock Exchange?

3. What racism did Sheril Cunning experience growing up in California?

4. How does Dellie Hahne believe military wives were regarded?

5. What surprised Anton Biler about his Japanese overseer in the prison camp?

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