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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. In Chapter 2, Grossman says the discussion of the killing process is most effective with which people?
(a) Criminal psychologists.
(b) School children.
(c) War vets.
(d) Convicted murderers.

2. What reason is given in Bhagavad Gita to justify killing?
(a) Soldiers must kill or be killed.
(b) Every man chooses his own death.
(c) All men are of the same Spirit.
(d) Killing is deliverance into heaven.

3. At the beginning of Chapter 4, what distinction does Grossman make between social learning and the previous two types of conditioning?
(a) It is inherently violent.
(b) It must be perpetrated by a group.
(c) It is unique to primates.
(d) It is experienced by every person.

4. What did military analysts in World War II predict about the result of civilian bombings?
(a) Psychiatric casualties would be worse than with soldiers.
(b) Psychiatric casualties would be equal to those with soldiers.
(c) Psychiatric casualties would be nonexistent.
(d) Psychiatric casualties would be fewer than with soldiers.

5. In Grossman's Chapter 2 trajectory of increasingly violent media, where do children go after cartoons?
(a) Comic books.
(b) PG-13 movies.
(c) TV cop shows.
(d) Violent music.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, the story of the soldier who kills a young enemy and immediately breaks down crying takes place in what country?

2. In Chapter 6, Grossman points out that hand-to-hand combat creates awareness of what?

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. Which of the following is an essential quality that makes a role model desirable as listed in Chapter 4?

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

(see the answer key)

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