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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. What did soldiers on troop ships understand about their destination, according to General William Buster?
(a) Only what their mission would be upon landing.
(b) Only where they would spend the first few weeks after landing.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Only where they were landing.

2. What right for ex-felons did John Abbott win in the Supreme Court?
(a) The right to vote.
(b) The right to work for federal agencies.
(c) The right to marry.
(d) The right to gather in meetings.

3. Who attacked Mexican youth in Los Angeles during the Zoot Suit riots?
(a) Servicemen.
(b) Policemen.
(c) High school boys.
(d) Football players.

4. What did Robert Rasmus think when he saw the ambulances arriving on the morning his group was attacking?
(a) That it was inevitable that bad things were about to happen.
(b) That modern medicine was a blessing.
(c) That they would have immediate backup.
(d) That they were all in it together.

5. Why didn't the American prisoners of war in Germany try to escape?
(a) They were afraid they'd be shot.
(b) They were watched every minute.
(c) They were shackled.
(d) There was nowhere to go.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Admiral Larocque think of the Japanese during the war?

2. What did Dr. Drude teach his high school students in Hamburg about the Nazis?

3. How many support personnel were behind each rifleman?

4. How did Robert Rasmus feel about escaping the Battle of the Bulge because of the flu?

5. Which college students were drafted earliest, according to Akira Miuri?

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