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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5, Killing and Atrocities: No Honor Here, No Virtue : Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not an animal that Grossman uses as an example of sexual dominating behavior at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Stag.
(b) Orca.
(c) Ram.
(d) Gorilla.

2. According to Grossman in Chapter 3, why would racially and ethnically dominant rhetoric by American leaders have been unhelpful in the Iraq War?
(a) We have a history of domestic racial oppression.
(b) Our military is multi-racial.
(c) Our enemies and allies were the same race.
(d) We have not official language or religion.

3. How does the military normally deal with the problem of exhaustion in combat?
(a) Field manuals.
(b) Boot camp prep.
(c) Vitamin supplements.
(d) Extra rations.

4. In the mythology cited at the end of Chapter 7, who is born of the marriage of Aries and Aphrodite?
(a) Harmonia.
(b) Persephone.
(c) Athena.
(d) Nyx.

5. In Chapter 2, Grossman indicates that committing an atrocity can cause what within a group?
(a) Identification with the enemy.
(b) Mass battle fatigue.
(c) Closer bonding.
(d) Dissent.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country did the case-study of Chapter 4 take place?

2. In Chapter 2, what civilian activity does Grossman use to illustrate the distance-guilt relationship?

3. Which of the following is not a stage of Stockholm Syndrome?

4. Chapter 7 begins with several vets joking about raping and murdering which public figure?

5. How many tours in Vietnam did the vet quoted in Chapter 7 serve before realizing that the killing urge was consuming him?

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