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

2. What did military analysts in World War II predict about the result of civilian bombings?
(a) Psychiatric casualties would be equal to those with soldiers.
(b) Psychiatric casualties would be fewer than with soldiers.
(c) Psychiatric casualties would be nonexistent.
(d) Psychiatric casualties would be worse than with soldiers.

3. What stigma constitutes a gray atrocity?
(a) One in which individual soldiers act without orders.
(b) One in which lines between ally and enemy are gone.
(c) One in which both sides face civilian casualties.
(d) One in which loss of life is minimal.

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

5. According to Grossman at the beginning of Chapter 5, what produces actual terror in really dangerous situations?
(a) Proximity to human maliciousness.
(b) Lack of control.
(c) Lack of order.
(d) Proximity to death.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, Grossman indicates that committing an atrocity can cause what within a group?

2. At the end of Chapter 6, Grossman says that what can provide a sudden injection of fortitude into a unit of men?

3. According to Grossman in Chapter 1, which type of combatants are more prone than most to a powerful exhilaration stage?

4. How many tours in Vietnam did the vet quoted in Chapter 7 serve before realizing that the killing urge was consuming him?

5. Early in Chapter 2, Grossman quotes a researcher who say that most soldier's relationship with their comrades are stronger than with whom?

(see the answer key)

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