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

2. Early in Chapter 2, Grossman quotes a researcher who say that most soldier's relationship with their comrades are stronger than with whom?
(a) Their parents.
(b) Their wives.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Their children.

3. Which of the following is not a point of the Weinberger Doctrine?
(a) Military deployment should be a last resort.
(b) Military should only be sent when vital interests are at stake.
(c) Soldiers must be armed with newest developed weaponry.
(d) Soldiers must be sent in sufficient numbers to accomplish goals.

4. What was new about the enemy composition in Vietnam as opposed to previous wars?
(a) Their were many women combatants.
(b) The enemy hid in tunnels.
(c) The enemy blended in with the populace.
(d) The enemy was younger in age.

5. Which of the following is not an option for a soldier in combat that Grossman lists in Chapter 1?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Fight.
(c) Posture.
(d) Submit.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the anecdote of Chapter 5, what consequence does the German soldier who refuses to take part in an atrocity face?

2. As described in Chapter 5, natural warriors are able to kill without what?

3. What famous study is cited at the beginning of Chapter 1?

4. What form of crime does Grossman indicate is skyrocketing at the beginning of Chapter 1?

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

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