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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. With what term does Grossman describe the reticence of the military to discuss non-firing in Chapter 3?
(a) An official fiction.
(b) Everybody's sin.
(c) A secret under the rug.
(d) A conspiracy of silence.

2. What term does Grossman use in Chapter 6 to indicate the method one uses to kill in hand-to-hand-combat?
(a) Deflect and deliver.
(b) Breath and blood.
(c) Hard to soft.
(d) Always on top.

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

4. In Chapter 6, Grossman points out that hand-to-hand combat creates awareness of what?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Vulnerability.
(c) Savagery.
(d) Interconnectedness.

5. According to the DSM, when is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder most severe?
(a) When it happens in wartime.
(b) When it happens in peacetime.
(c) When the victim was severely injured.
(d) When the trauma was caused by a person.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Grosman in Chapter 5, why do combatants choose the slash rather than thrust with edged weapons?

2. In Chapter 4, what World War II battle does Grossman cite as an example of hunger deciding combat?

3. According to Grossman in Chapter 3, why do most soldiers refuse to discuss their aversion to killing?

4. In the study cited by Grossman at the end of Chapter 5, what stimulus was applied to test dogs?

5. What occurs as a result of exhaustion after the 60-day mark of continuous combat?

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