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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 6, Grossman points out that hand-to-hand combat creates awareness of what?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Savagery.
(c) Vulnerability.
(d) Interconnectedness.

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

3. Chapter 7 begins with several vets joking about raping and murdering which public figure?
(a) Gloria Steinem.
(b) Hillary Clinton.
(c) Susan Sarandon.
(d) Jane Fonda.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 5, Grossman calls a soldier's choice to participate in an atrocity a what?
(a) Suicidal act.
(b) Surrender to fear.
(c) Fool's errand.
(d) Faustian bargain.

5. What was the first crew-served weapon?
(a) The artillery gun.
(b) The submarine.
(c) The chariot.
(d) The phalanx.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which stage of the killing process did Eric - who shot a VC soldier while he was urinating - skip,as described in Chapter 2?

3. According to Grossman in Chapter 3, why do most soldiers refuse to discuss their aversion to killing?

4. Early in Chapter 2, Grossman quotes a researcher who say that most soldier's relationship with their comrades are stronger than with whom?

5. In Vietnam, about how many rounds did it take to kill one enemy soldier?

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