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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3,Killing and Physical Distance: From a Distance You Don't Look Anything Like a Friend: Chapter 5, Killing at Edged-Weapons Range | Section 3, Killing and Physical Distance: From a Distance You Don't Look Anything Like a Friend: Chapter 6, Killing at Hand-to-Hand Combat Range.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 1, Grossman says he will only discover the distance guilt relationship as it concerns what?
(a) Warfare.
(b) The twentieth century.
(c) America.
(d) Humans.

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

3. At the end of Chapter 6, Grossman says that what can provide a sudden injection of fortitude into a unit of men?
(a) New leadership.
(b) Victory.
(c) Rest.
(d) Nothing.

4. What reason is given in Bhagavad Gita to justify killing?
(a) Every man chooses his own death.
(b) Killing is deliverance into heaven.
(c) All men are of the same Spirit.
(d) Soldiers must kill or be killed.

5. What city did King Sennacherib destroy?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Tehran.
(d) Babylon.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Grossman in Chapter 1, why is it easy for the wealthy to oppress the poor without feeling guilt?

2. In Chapter 3, Grossman says what two stimuli most often impel soldiers to kill?

3. What conversion did most military personnel make to their bayonets in combat?

4. At the end of Chapter 4, what physical reaction to exhaustion and hunger does Grossman cite?

5. Which Roman leader and writer does Grossman quote in Chapter 4?

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