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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. What famous study is cited at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) The Tuskegee Institute syphilis studies.
(b) The Yale "electroshock" study.
(c) Pavlov's dog experiments.
(d) The Stanford "prison" study.

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

3. At the end of Chapter 4, what reason does Grossman give for the increase in firing and killing in recent wars?
(a) New weapons technology.
(b) The end of the draft.
(c) Less close-raange combat.
(d) Military conditioning practices.

4. Which of the following is not a means of recuperation Grossman endorses for PTSD in Chapter 3?
(a) Medication.
(b) Bonding with vets.
(c) Support groups.
(d) Safe disclosure.

5. At the end of Chapter 8, what does Grossman say psychiatrists need to explore to treat traumatized servicemen?
(a) The history of military psychology.
(b) The effects of killing.
(c) The clinical definition of PTSD.
(d) The past history of each man.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Crimean War anecdote in Chapter 1, what do the soldiers do when confronted with an enemy at ten paces?

2. Which of the following theorists presents evidence concerning proximity of authority and peer groups?

3. Which of the following is not an item that aids in rationalization and acceptance as delineated at the beginning of Chapter 2?

4. When does a soldier's guilt following an atrocity become completely unavoidable?

5. Which of the following is not an example provided in Chapter 2 of Vietnam's "dirty" combat?

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