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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. According to Grossman in Chapter 2, what do POW executions do to an enemy?
(a) Break their morale.
(b) Make them more aggressive.
(c) Give them reason to murder your POW's
(d) Destroy their civilian support.

2. In Chapter 7, an anonymous soldier compares what horrific incident to masturbation?
(a) The My Lai massacre.
(b) The Katyn massacre.
(c) The Cultural Revolution.
(d) The Battle of Shiloh.

3. Chapter 7 begins with several vets joking about raping and murdering which public figure?
(a) Jane Fonda.
(b) Susan Sarandon.
(c) Hillary Clinton.
(d) Gloria Steinem.

4. What term arose in the early 1990's to describe the new fighting techniques seen in the Gulf War?
(a) Telegraph war.
(b) Nintendo war.
(c) Calling-card war.
(d) Mail-order war.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the unifying element that links all of the coping tactics in Chapter 3?

2. In Chapter 3, an Israeli study says a hostage is much more likely to die if what?

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

4. Which Civil War officer does Grossman quote at the beginning of Chapter 5?

5. What stigma constitutes a gray atrocity?

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