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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8, Killing in America: What Are we Doing to Our Children? : Chapter 4, Social Learning and Role Models in the Media.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Grossman in Chapter 4, an effective strategy in defeating an enemy's ability to make war is in destroying what?
(a) Their infrastructure.
(b) Their equipment.
(c) Their numbers.
(d) Their morale.

2. By the late 1990's, approximately how many Vietnam vets were suffering from PTSD?
(a) 75,000.
(b) 600,000.
(c) 400,000.
(d) 2,000,000.

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

4. In the Crimean War anecdote in Chapter 1, what do the soldiers do when confronted with an enemy at ten paces?
(a) They surrender.
(b) They bayonet them.
(c) They shake hands.
(d) They throw rocks.

5. How many tours in Vietnam did the vet quoted in Chapter 7 serve before realizing that the killing urge was consuming him?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following is not an animal that Grossman uses as an example of sexual dominating behavior at the beginning of Chapter 7?

4. According to Grossman in Chapter 5, what component separates a natural warrior from a psychopath?

5. At the end of Chapter 6, Grossman says that what can provide a sudden injection of fortitude into a unit of men?

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