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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 4, what World War II battle does Grossman cite as an example of hunger deciding combat?
(a) Normandy.
(b) Iwo Jima.
(c) Midway.
(d) Stalingrad.

2. According to Grossman in Chapter 5, what component separates a natural warrior from a psychopath?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Charisma.
(d) Control.

3. What great advance in military technology did Gustavus Adolphus create?
(a) The portable cannon.
(b) The automatic rifle.
(c) The black powder rifle.
(d) The chain gun.

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

5. Which of the following is not a stage of Stockholm Syndrome?
(a) Hostage-taker feels antipathy to the victim.
(b) Victim identifies with the hostage-take.
(c) Hostage-taker identyifies with the victim.
(d) Victim feels antipathy to the authorities.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, Grossman points out that hand-to-hand combat creates awareness of what?

2. To what presidency does Grossman apply the killing process in Chapter 2?

3. What mistaken impression did the ex-CIA officer whose story appears at the end of Chapter 1 have about his prisoner?

4. In the beginning of Chapter 3, what does the Vietnam vet assume is on the back of the picture in Grossman's story?

5. At the end of Chapter 6, Grossman says that what can provide a sudden injection of fortitude into a unit of men?

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