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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 regards to war, what group of people does Grossman say in Chapter 1 is most distanced in their decision-making?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Contractors.
(c) Generals.
(d) Petty officers.

2. To what dystopian novel does Grossman compare military conditioning in Chapter 2?
(a) Clockwork Orange.
(b) 1984.
(c) Brave New World.
(d) The Road.

3. According to Grosman in Chapter 5, why do combatants choose the slash rather than thrust with edged weapons?
(a) It can be done while moving.
(b) It wounds rather than kills.
(c) It is a simpler motion.
(d) It creates a radius of safety.

4. In discussing the atavistic fervor of a mob early in Chapter 2, Grossman cites what recent genocide?
(a) Rwanda.
(b) Phillipines.
(c) Cambodia.
(d) East Timor.

5. According to Grossman in Chapter 3, what does the army use in rifle training?
(a) A picture of Osama bin Laden.
(b) A human sillhouette.
(c) A bowling pin.
(d) A bulls-eye.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a stage of Stockholm Syndrome?

2. What term does Grossman use in Chapter 6 to indicate the method one uses to kill in hand-to-hand-combat?

3. Which of the following is not a means of recuperation Grossman endorses for PTSD in Chapter 3?

4. 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?

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

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