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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 2, what is the most effective treatment for psychiatric casualties?
(a) Freudian therapy.
(b) Medication.
(c) Time away from combat.
(d) Jungian therapy.

2. According to Grosman in Chapter 5, why do combatants choose the slash rather than thrust with edged weapons?
(a) It creates a radius of safety.
(b) It wounds rather than kills.
(c) It is a simpler motion.
(d) It can be done while moving.

3. As described in Chapter 5, natural warriors are able to kill without what?
(a) Nausea.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Acknowledging it.
(d) Remorse.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Grossman in Chapter 5, what component separates a natural warrior from a psychopath?

2. What is the unifying element that links all of the coping tactics in Chapter 3?

3. In Chapter 2, what advice do German World War I vets give World War II recruits?

4. What great advance in military technology did Gustavus Adolphus create?

5. In the anecdote of Chapter 5, what consequence does the German soldier who refuses to take part in an atrocity face?

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