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

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

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

4. Which of the following is not an option for a soldier in combat that Grossman lists in Chapter 1?
(a) Fight.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Posture.
(d) Submit.

5. In Chapter 2, what tactic does Grossman describe as key to training soldiers to fire in combat?
(a) Education.
(b) Drilling.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Encouragement.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 1, Grossman says he will only discover the distance guilt relationship as it concerns what?

2. In Chapter 7, what does Grossman cite as a powerful examine of of link between violence and sex in popular culture?

3. 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?

4. During World War I, what was the favored weapon of American servicemen for killing enemy combatants?

5. According to Grossman in Chapter 8, what varies widely regarding those who recover from mental trauma after killing in combat?

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