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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 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.

2. Which of the following is not a factor contributing to a soldier's compliance in an atrocity mentioned in Chapter 5?
(a) Racial hatred.
(b) Self-preservation.
(c) Group absolution.
(d) Fear of terrorism.

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

4. According to Grossman in Chapter 3, why do most soldiers refuse to discuss their aversion to killing?
(a) To save face with others.
(b) To impress civilians.
(c) To avoid court martial.
(d) To scare would-be challengers.

5. Between 1970 and today, what increase has occurred in the number of imprisoned individuals per 100,000?
(a) 150 to 400.
(b) 150 to 700.
(c) 100 to 500.
(d) 40 to 250.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grossman credit with reducing the number of homicides in America in Chapter 1?

2. 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?

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

4. What experience described at the end of Chapter 2 caused guilt in Sol, a World War II vet who did not take part in killing?

5. What great advance in military technology did Gustavus Adolphus create?

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