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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7, Killing in Vietnam: What Have We Done to Our Soldiers? : Chapter 4, The Limits of Human Endurance and the Lessons of Vietnam.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what tactic does Grossman describe as key to training soldiers to fire in combat?
(a) Encouragement.
(b) Drilling.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Education.

2. In the mythology cited at the end of Chapter 7, who is born of the marriage of Aries and Aphrodite?
(a) Harmonia.
(b) Nyx.
(c) Persephone.
(d) Athena.

3. In Chapter 7, what does Grossman cite as a powerful examine of of link between violence and sex in popular culture?
(a) Russ Meyer pictures.
(b) Dead teenager slasher films.
(c) Girls-with-guns videos.
(d) Miami Vice.

4. What percentage of the population can sustain more than a few months duty without sustaining long-term mental damage?
(a) 2.
(b) 13.
(c) 25.
(d) 0.

5. In discussing the atavistic fervor of a mob early in Chapter 2, Grossman cites what recent genocide?
(a) East Timor.
(b) Phillipines.
(c) Rwanda.
(d) Cambodia.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 4, warfare is the process of giving individuals the means for what?

2. How does the military normally deal with the problem of exhaustion in combat?

3. Which of the following is not an option for a soldier in combat that Grossman lists in Chapter 1?

4. In his anecdote of Chapter 2, what event elicited surprisingly violent action from Richard Heckler?

5. What percentage of the population qualifies as a natural warrior?

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