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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. In Chapter 7, what does Grossman cite as a powerful examine of of link between violence and sex in popular culture?
(a) Miami Vice.
(b) Girls-with-guns videos.
(c) Dead teenager slasher films.
(d) Russ Meyer pictures.

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

3. In Chapter 3, an Israeli study says a hostage is much more likely to die if what?
(a) He is not allowed to use the bathroom.
(b) He knows the hostage-takers' names.
(c) His hands are not bound.
(d) His head is hooded.

4. Which of the following is not a stage of Stockholm Syndrome?
(a) Victim identifies with the hostage-take.
(b) Hostage-taker feels antipathy to the victim.
(c) Hostage-taker identyifies with the victim.
(d) Victim feels antipathy to the authorities.

5. In Chapter 2, what advice do German World War I vets give World War II recruits?
(a) Go AWOL near the Swiss border.
(b) Surrender to the Americans.
(c) Do not distinguish between civilian and enemy.
(d) Kill any Russian you encounter.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Grossman in Chapter 2, what do POW executions do to an enemy?

2. In the mythology cited at the end of Chapter 7, who is born of the marriage of Aries and Aphrodite?

3. In Chapter 7, an anonymous soldier compares what horrific incident to masturbation?

4. In Chapter 2, Grossman indicates that committing an atrocity can cause what within a group?

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

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