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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rosie, Neighborhood Boys, and Reflections on Machismo.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What unusual food did Ken Hourigan eat in the Philippines?
(a) Horse.
(b) Mouse.
(c) Dog.
(d) Cat.

2. What percentage of the marines in the Guadalcanal campaign were under twenty-one years of age?
(a) One hundred percent.
(b) Fifty percent.
(c) Eighty percent.
(d) Twenty percent.

3. How did Robert Rasmus feel looking at the faces of the German dead?
(a) They were an abstraction, not human beings.
(b) They were boys like him.
(c) They didn't seem real.
(d) They were brutish and cruel.

4. How does Mike Royko believe most U.S. soldiers felt about the Korean conflict?
(a) They didn't understand it.
(b) They were glad to have their chance to fight.
(c) They wanted to defeat North Korea.
(d) They wanted to defend South Korea.

5. Why was John Garcia brought before a navy court?
(a) He lied about his age to enlist.
(b) He was firing unauthorized ammunition.
(c) He refused to go into a burning ship.
(d) He was accused of aiding the enemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the soldiers forbidden to keep diaries?

2. Why did Robert Rasmus believe the Americans should be grateful to the Russians?

3. Why did the Japanese overseers get angry if the American prisoners killed a snake?

4. What right for ex-felons did John Abbott win in the Supreme Court?

5. Why were people in San Francisco panicked after Pearl Harbor, according to Dennis Keegan?

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