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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 was the first crew-served weapon?
(a) The phalanx.
(b) The artillery gun.
(c) The submarine.
(d) The chariot.

2. By 1971, what percentage of evacuations from Vietnam was related to psychiatric problems?
(a) 28.
(b) 75.
(c) 12.
(d) 50.

3. 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 numbers.
(c) Their equipment.
(d) Their morale.

4. In Chapter 4, Grossman says that every veteran can immediately visualize his what?
(a) Drill instuctor.
(b) C.O.
(c) President.
(d) Rifle.

5. According to Grossman in Chapter 3, why would racially and ethnically dominant rhetoric by American leaders have been unhelpful in the Iraq War?
(a) Our military is multi-racial.
(b) We have not official language or religion.
(c) We have a history of domestic racial oppression.
(d) Our enemies and allies were the same race.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a point of the Weinberger Doctrine?

2. Which Civil War officer does Grossman quote at the beginning of Chapter 5?

3. What does a drill instructor teach as the root of manhood?

4. In Chapter 3, what does Grossman delineate as a voice of authority in modern youth killing?

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

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