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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. In the beginning of Chapter 3, what does the Vietnam vet assume is on the back of the picture in Grossman's story?
(a) A goodbye message.
(b) A date.
(c) An address.
(d) Blood.

2. According to Grossman in Chapter 1, what was the solution the American military's solution after World War II to many soldiers more willing to shoot?
(a) More careful recruiting screening.
(b) Psychological bombardment.
(c) Advances in rifle firing range.
(d) An all-volunteer army.

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

4. What percentage of the population qualifies as a natural warrior?
(a) About 25 percent.
(b) About 6 percent.
(c) About 10 percent.
(d) About 2 percent.

5. In Chapter 2, Grossman indicates that committing an atrocity can cause what within a group?
(a) Dissent.
(b) Mass battle fatigue.
(c) Closer bonding.
(d) Identification with the enemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 7 begins with several vets joking about raping and murdering which public figure?

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

3. Between 1970 and today, what increase has occurred in the number of imprisoned individuals per 100,000?

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

5. What is different about the way the way the hypothetical World War II and Vietnam vets returned home in Chapter 3?

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