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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 Chapter 7, what does Grossman cite as a powerful examine of of link between violence and sex in popular culture?
(a) Dead teenager slasher films.
(b) Miami Vice.
(c) Russ Meyer pictures.
(d) Girls-with-guns videos.

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

3. What does Grossman cite at length in Chapter 5 as a perfect amalgamation of the effects of hate on psychological state?
(a) The Holocaust.
(b) The Cambodian Killing Fields.
(c) The Hanoi HIlton.
(d) The Andersonville Prison.

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

5. 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) Psychological bombardment.
(b) More careful recruiting screening.
(c) An all-volunteer army.
(d) Advances in rifle firing range.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first crew-served weapon?

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

3. Which of the following is not an animal that Grossman uses as an example of sexual dominating behavior at the beginning of Chapter 7?

4. According to Grossman at the end of Chapter 5, on which individual are the affects of horror in combat most psychologically damaging?

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

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