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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. As related in Chapter 6, which catalyzing event occurred to Calley's platoon the day before the My Lai massacre?
(a) The platoon was ambushed by VC.
(b) The Golf of Tonkin incident occured.
(c) A soldier tripped a booby trap.
(d) Calley's wife divorced him.

2. At the end of Chapter 4, what physical reaction to exhaustion and hunger does Grossman cite?
(a) Involuntary urination.
(b) Organ failure.
(c) Body tremors.
(d) Ulcers.

3. What conversion did most military personnel make to their bayonets in combat?
(a) They used the blunt end of them.
(b) They used them as hand weapons.
(c) They attached them upside down.
(d) They removed them completely.

4. Which of the following theorists presents evidence concerning proximity of authority and peer groups?
(a) Swank.
(b) Shalit.
(c) Milgram.
(d) Marshall.

5. According to Grossman in Chapter 5, what component separates a natural warrior from a psychopath?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Control.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Charisma.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the DSM, when is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder most severe?

2. In what war did Lord Moran fight?

3. According to Grossman in Chapter 3, why would racially and ethnically dominant rhetoric by American leaders have been unhelpful in the Iraq War?

4. What experience described at the end of Chapter 2 caused guilt in Sol, a World War II vet who did not take part in killing?

5. In the Crimean War anecdote in Chapter 1, what do the soldiers do when confronted with an enemy at ten paces?

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