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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2, Killing and Combat Trauma: The Role of Killing in Psychiatric Casualties: Chapter 5, The Wind of Hate | Section 2, Killing and Combat Trauma: The Role of Killing in Psychiatric Casualties: Chapter 6, The Well of Fortitude.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 4, what reason does Grossman give for the increase in firing and killing in recent wars?
(a) The end of the draft.
(b) New weapons technology.
(c) Less close-raange combat.
(d) Military conditioning practices.

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

3. Which Roman leader and writer does Grossman quote in Chapter 4?
(a) Marcus Aurelius.
(b) Tacitus.
(c) Herodotus.
(d) Claudius.

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

5. According to Grossman at the beginning of Chapter 5, what produces actual terror in really dangerous situations?
(a) Lack of control.
(b) Proximity to human maliciousness.
(c) Lack of order.
(d) Proximity to death.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, Grossman says what two stimuli most often impel soldiers to kill?

2. In what war did Lord Moran fight?

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

4. What occurs as a result of exhaustion after the 60-day mark of continuous combat?

5. In the study cited by Grossman at the end of Chapter 5, what stimulus was applied to test dogs?

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