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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. When does a soldier's guilt following an atrocity become completely unavoidable?
(a) When he is already depressed.
(b) When he returns to a peacetime situation.
(c) When the war is a domestic conflict.
(d) When his side loses.

2. What is different about the way the way the hypothetical World War II and Vietnam vets returned home in Chapter 3?
(a) The time it takes.
(b) The number that are alive.
(c) The amount of killing they were asked to do.
(d) The race of the vets.

3. In Chapter 3, what does Grossman delineate as a voice of authority in modern youth killing?
(a) Media.
(b) Parents.
(c) Gang leaders.
(d) Peers.

4. What fear did Saddam Hussein seize upon to hold on to power, as discussed in Chapter 2?
(a) A Kurdish secession.
(b) A Shiite backlash.
(c) A US invasion.
(d) Iranian influx.

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) Kill any Russian you encounter.
(c) Do not distinguish between civilian and enemy.
(d) Surrender to the Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a factor contributing to a soldier's compliance in an atrocity mentioned in Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 3, an Israeli study says a hostage is much more likely to die if what?

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

4. In the Vet of the Year anecdote in Chapter 3, who did Dave use as an example of someone who did not kill but was still blamed?

5. What city did King Sennacherib destroy?

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