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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. 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?
(a) The bombing of Nagasaki.
(b) The Normandy landing.
(c) The liberation of a concentration camp.
(d) The bombardment of a Japanese island.

2. Which of the following is not a component of killing that is covered in Chapter 4?
(a) Means.
(b) Fear.
(c) Motive.
(d) Opportunity.

3. Which of the following is not a component of Group Absolution as delineated in Chapter 1?
(a) Legitimacy of group.
(b) Number in immediate group.
(c) Age of group members.
(d) Intensity of support to kill.

4. As described in Chapter 4, how did German soldiers surrender at the end of World War II?
(a) Burning their uniforms.
(b) Holding out family pictures.
(c) Bowing to American tanks.
(d) Singing the Star Spangled Banner.

5. What percentage of casualties did cannon fire comprise in many Civil War battles?
(a) 4.
(b) 23.
(c) 10.
(d) 50.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Grossman at the end of Chapter 1, what is not widely known about CW Whittlesley, the commander of the Lost Battalion?

2. Which of the following is not a response to killing as described at the beginning of Chapter 1?

3. In the final story of Chapter 4, the one in which an American and Viet Cong soldier happen upon each other, who is killed?

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

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

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