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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 stigma constitutes a gray atrocity?
(a) One in which loss of life is minimal.
(b) One in which lines between ally and enemy are gone.
(c) One in which individual soldiers act without orders.
(d) One in which both sides face civilian casualties.

2. In what war did Lord Moran fight?
(a) The Rhodesian Wars.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Falklands War.

3. By the late 1990's, approximately how many Vietnam vets were suffering from PTSD?
(a) 2,000,000.
(b) 75,000.
(c) 400,000.
(d) 600,000.

4. According to Grossman in Chapter 3, why would racially and ethnically dominant rhetoric by American leaders have been unhelpful in the Iraq War?
(a) We have a history of domestic racial oppression.
(b) Our enemies and allies were the same race.
(c) We have not official language or religion.
(d) Our military is multi-racial.

5. According to Grossman at the end of Chapter 5, on which individual are the affects of horror in combat most psychologically damaging?
(a) POW.
(b) Combatant.
(c) Civilian.
(d) Correspondant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Civil War officer does Grossman quote at the beginning of Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 7, an anonymous soldier compares what horrific incident to masturbation?

3. What term arose in the early 1990's to describe the new fighting techniques seen in the Gulf War?

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

5. In Chapter 2, what civilian activity does Grossman use to illustrate the distance-guilt relationship?

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