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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3, Killing and Physical Distance: From a Distance You Don't Look Anything Like a Friend: Chapter 7, Killing at Sexual Range: | Section 4, An Anatomy of Killing: All Factors Considered: Chapter 1, The Demands of Authority: Milgram and the Military.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 7, an anonymous soldier compares what horrific incident to masturbation?
(a) The Cultural Revolution.
(b) The Katyn massacre.
(c) The My Lai massacre.
(d) The Battle of Shiloh.

2. How does the military normally deal with the problem of exhaustion in combat?
(a) Boot camp prep.
(b) Extra rations.
(c) Vitamin supplements.
(d) Field manuals.

3. At the beginning of Chapter 1, Grossman says he will only discover the distance guilt relationship as it concerns what?
(a) The twentieth century.
(b) America.
(c) Humans.
(d) Warfare.

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

5. What percentage of the population can sustain more than a few months duty without sustaining long-term mental damage?
(a) 25.
(b) 2.
(c) 0.
(d) 13.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the final story of Chapter 4, the one in which an American and Viet Cong soldier happen upon each other, who is killed?

2. In Chapter 2, what tactic does Grossman describe as key to training soldiers to fire in combat?

3. In Chapter 7, Grossman says what has made killing easier for soldiers?

4. In the story at the beginning of Chapter 3, what percentage of soldiers questioned said they were certain they had killed even one enemy in combat?

5. Which of the following is not an option for a soldier in combat that Grossman lists in Chapter 1?

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