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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. Between which two stages of the killing process is a murder-suicide fluctuating, as described in Chapter 2?
(a) Concern and acceptance.
(b) Killing and remorse.
(c) Exhilaration and revulsion.
(d) Remorse and rationalization.

2. According to Chapter 4, warfare is the process of giving individuals the means for what?
(a) Self-actualization.
(b) Destruction.
(c) Courage.
(d) Strategic superiority.

3. In Chapter 2, what civilian activity does Grossman use to illustrate the distance-guilt relationship?
(a) Urban crime.
(b) Rape.
(c) Eating meat.
(d) Corporate layoffs.

4. 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 a pacifist.
(b) He was relieved of duty shortly after the incident.
(c) He committed suicide.
(d) He was not among the trapped battalion.

5. According to Grossman in Chapter 1, what is the primary duty of the leader of a Greek phalanx?
(a) To reform the formation when someone fell.
(b) The deliver orders.
(c) To fight with the men.
(d) The stategize behind lines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a means of recuperation Grossman endorses for PTSD in Chapter 3?

2. By 1971, what percentage of evacuations from Vietnam was related to psychiatric problems?

3. Which stage of the killing process did Eric - who shot a VC soldier while he was urinating - skip,as described in Chapter 2?

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

5. In Chapter 2, what tactic does Grossman describe as key to training soldiers to fire in combat?

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