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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6, The Killing Response Stages: What Does It Feel Like to Kill? : Chapter 2, Applications of the Model: Murder-Suicides, Lost Elections and Thoughts of Insanity.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what does John Foster compare combat in Chapter 1?
(a) Mountain climbing.
(b) Making love.
(c) Volleyball.
(d) Driving a car.

3. At the end of Chapter 5, Grossman says that a soldier who refuses to take part in an atrocity represents what?
(a) Nobility in mankind.
(b) Fear incarnate.
(c) Resistance to peer pressure.
(d) An independent heart.

4. In his anecdote of Chapter 2, what event elicited surprisingly violent action from Richard Heckler?
(a) His wife leaving him.
(b) His mother's death.
(c) A mugging.
(d) A long line at a supermarket.

5. Chapter 7 begins with several vets joking about raping and murdering which public figure?
(a) Jane Fonda.
(b) Gloria Steinem.
(c) Susan Sarandon.
(d) Hillary Clinton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following theorists presents evidence concerning tactical attractiveness of a victim?

2. According to Grossman in Chapter 2, what do POW executions do to an enemy?

3. How does the rationalization of Ray, the Panama vet quoted at the end of Chapter 1, manifest itself?

4. Which of the following is not an animal that Grossman uses as an example of sexual dominating behavior at the beginning of Chapter 7?

5. At the end of Chapter 4, what physical reaction to exhaustion and hunger does Grossman cite?

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