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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, what does Grossman cite as a powerful examine of of link between violence and sex in popular culture?
(a) Miami Vice.
(b) Dead teenager slasher films.
(c) Russ Meyer pictures.
(d) Girls-with-guns videos.

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

3. In Chapter 7, Grossman says what has made killing easier for soldiers?
(a) A new enemy.
(b) A violent media.
(c) Training.
(d) Technology.

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

5. In Chapter 7, what reason does Grossman give for the cultural separation between officers and enlisted men in the military?
(a) A means of maintaining a socioeconomic status quo.
(b) A way to encourage enlisted men to strive and advance.
(c) Allowing officers the separation to send men on dangerous missions.
(d) A means for instilling fear in the enlisted men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did military analysts in World War II predict about the result of civilian bombings?

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

3. According to Grosman in Chapter 5, why do combatants choose the slash rather than thrust with edged weapons?

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

5. In Chapter 2, what is significant about the Civil War muskets examined by Grossman?

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