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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. What reason is given in Bhagavad Gita to justify killing?
(a) Every man chooses his own death.
(b) Killing is deliverance into heaven.
(c) Soldiers must kill or be killed.
(d) All men are of the same Spirit.

2. Early in Chapter 2, Grossman quotes a researcher who say that most soldier's relationship with their comrades are stronger than with whom?
(a) Their parents.
(b) Their wives.
(c) Their children.
(d) Themselves.

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

4. In his anecdote of Chapter 2, what event elicited surprisingly violent action from Richard Heckler?
(a) His wife leaving him.
(b) A mugging.
(c) A long line at a supermarket.
(d) His mother's death.

5. In Chapter 7, an anonymous soldier compares what horrific incident to masturbation?
(a) The Cultural Revolution.
(b) The Katyn massacre.
(c) The My Lai massacre.
(d) The Battle of Shiloh.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not a category of atrocity listed in Chapter 1?

3. Which of the following is not a contributing factor in determining whether a group easily unites in combat killing?

4. What fear did Saddam Hussein seize upon to hold on to power, as discussed in Chapter 2?

5. What stigma constitutes a gray atrocity?

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