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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 2, what is significant about the Civil War muskets examined by Grossman?
(a) They are loaded without pellets.
(b) They are loaded without powder.
(c) They are loaded multiple times.
(d) They are unloaded.

2. At the end of Chapter 5, how does Grossman describe the power of the edged-weapon threat?
(a) Savage.
(b) Sexual.
(c) Dainty.
(d) Minimal.

3. Which of the following is not an animal that Grossman uses as an example of sexual dominating behavior at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Ram.
(b) Stag.
(c) Gorilla.
(d) Orca.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Grossman at the beginning of Chapter 5, what produces actual terror in really dangerous situations?

4. In Chapter 7, what reason does Grossman give for the cultural separation between officers and enlisted men in the military?

5. According to Grossman at the end of Chapter 5, on which individual are the affects of horror in combat most psychologically damaging?

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