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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7, Killing in Vietnam: What Have We Done to Our Soldiers? : Chapter 5, What are We Doing to Our Children?.

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) Gorilla.
(d) Ram.

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

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

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

5. Which Roman leader and writer does Grossman quote in Chapter 4?
(a) Claudius.
(b) Herodotus.
(c) Tacitus.
(d) Marcus Aurelius.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what presidency does Grossman apply the killing process in Chapter 2?

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

3. What term arose in the early 1990's to describe the new fighting techniques seen in the Gulf War?

4. According to Grossman in Chapter 3, why would racially and ethnically dominant rhetoric by American leaders have been unhelpful in the Iraq War?

5. In regards to war, what group of people does Grossman say in Chapter 1 is most distanced in their decision-making?

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