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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 5, how does Grossman describe the power of the edged-weapon threat?
(a) Dainty.
(b) Minimal.
(c) Sexual.
(d) Savage.

2. In Chapter 2, what is significant about the Civil War muskets examined by Grossman?
(a) They are loaded without powder.
(b) They are unloaded.
(c) They are loaded without pellets.
(d) They are loaded multiple times.

3. According to Grossman in Chapter 7, how long can guilt over killing last?
(a) Hours.
(b) Months.
(c) A lifetime.
(d) Days.

4. Freud, as quoted in Chapter 1, stresses the ascendancy of man's desire to what?
(a) Be validated.
(b) Obey.
(c) Prove himself.
(d) Reproduce.

5. Which of the following is not an option for a soldier in combat that Grossman lists in Chapter 1?
(a) Fight.
(b) Posture.
(c) Submit.
(d) Suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the study cited by Grossman at the end of Chapter 5, what stimulus was applied to test dogs?

2. What percentage of the population can sustain more than a few months duty without sustaining long-term mental damage?

3. During World War I, what was the favored weapon of American servicemen for killing enemy combatants?

4. In Chapter 5, to what group did the German defector interviewed switch?

5. Near the end of Chapter 1, Grossman cites a political cartoon criticizing what American commander?

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