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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. Which of the following is not a symptom of PTSD?
(a) Social withdrawal.
(b) Bouts of vertigo.
(c) Difficulty maintaining relationships.
(d) Intrusive dreams.

2. In what country did the case-study of Chapter 4 take place?
(a) Congo.
(b) Rwanda.
(c) Thailand.
(d) Philippines.

3. In terms of effective leadership, what disadvantage do mercenaries and gang leaders have?
(a) They do not have formal education or training.
(b) Their men traditionally try to unseat them.
(c) They are asking their men to commit illegal acts.
(d) They traditionally do not work their way through the ranks.

4. In the mythology cited at the end of Chapter 7, who is born of the marriage of Aries and Aphrodite?
(a) Nyx.
(b) Persephone.
(c) Harmonia.
(d) Athena.

5. Which of the following is not a popular late Fifties novel or film that Grossman cites in Chapter 3 as a representation of a World War II vet?
(a) Revolutionary Road.
(b) Pride of the Yankees.
(c) The Best Years of Our Lives.
(d) Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.

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

3. What is the unifying element that links all of the coping tactics in Chapter 3?

4. What stigma constitutes a gray atrocity?

5. In Chapter 5, to what group did the German defector interviewed switch?

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