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. In terms of effective leadership, what disadvantage do mercenaries and gang leaders have?
(a) Their men traditionally try to unseat them.
(b) They do not have formal education or training.
(c) They are asking their men to commit illegal acts.
(d) They traditionally do not work their way through the ranks.

2. Which of the following is not a factor contributing to a soldier's compliance in an atrocity mentioned in Chapter 5?
(a) Fear of terrorism.
(b) Group absolution.
(c) Racial hatred.
(d) Self-preservation.

3. In Chapter 2, Grossman says the discussion of the killing process is most effective with which people?
(a) Criminal psychologists.
(b) War vets.
(c) Convicted murderers.
(d) School children.

4. Aside from officers, which individuals are often killed in combat for their toll on morale?
(a) Young recruits.
(b) Flagbearers.
(c) The elderly.
(d) Wives.

5. According to Grossman at the end of Chapter 1, what is not widely known about CW Whittlesley, the commander of the Lost Battalion?
(a) He was not among the trapped battalion.
(b) He committed suicide.
(c) He was a pacifist.
(d) He was relieved of duty shortly after the incident.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What city did King Sennacherib destroy?

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

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

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