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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through High Rank and The Bombers and the Bombed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were the soldiers forbidden to keep diaries?
(a) Families should be protected from sad information.
(b) There would be no time to sit and write.
(c) Diaries found by the enemy could give information.
(d) They were instructed to forget the tragedies they saw.

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

3. Why didn't Maurice Wilson think the Filipinos would hide American escapees from the Japanese prison camp?
(a) The Filipinos were afraid of the Japanese.
(b) The Filipinos were enemies as well.
(c) The Filipinos hated the Americans.
(d) The Filipinos would turn them in for the reward.

4. What did E.B. Sledge say the war did to American soldiers?
(a) Turned them into cowards.
(b) Turned them into patriots.
(c) Turned them into savages.
(d) Turned them into idiots.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Peter Bezich's son go to prison?

2. How many support personnel were behind each rifleman?

3. How does General William Buster feel about the Vietnam War?

4. How long was the Bataan Death March?

5. What does John Ciardi believe could make anyone savage?

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