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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4, An Anatomy of Killing: All Factors Considered: Chapter 3, Emotional Distance:.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does fight-or-flight not come into play in a battle situation?
(a) Battle is a collective exercise.
(b) Soldiers are able to communicate verbally with each other.
(c) Soldiers are armed with weapons.
(d) Soldiers are on the same stratus of the food chain.

2. In Chapter 2, what civilian activity does Grossman use to illustrate the distance-guilt relationship?
(a) Rape.
(b) Corporate layoffs.
(c) Eating meat.
(d) Urban crime.

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

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

5. What occurs as a result of exhaustion after the 60-day mark of continuous combat?
(a) Narcolepsy.
(b) Death.
(c) Muscle atrophy.
(d) Hallucinations.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 4, what reason does Grossman give for the increase in firing and killing in recent wars?

2. Which of the following is a component of Demands of Authority as delineated in Chapter 1?

3. Near the end of Chapter 1, Grossman cites a political cartoon criticizing what American commander?

4. In Chapter 1, Grossman cites a study which says vets are most likely to fire when?

5. What was the first crew-served weapon?

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