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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many tours in Vietnam did the vet quoted in Chapter 7 serve before realizing that the killing urge was consuming him?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

2. In the story at the beginning of Chapter 3, what percentage of soldiers questioned said they were certain they had killed even one enemy in combat?
(a) 50.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

3. What great advance in military technology did Gustavus Adolphus create?
(a) The portable cannon.
(b) The chain gun.
(c) The automatic rifle.
(d) The black powder rifle.

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

5. In Chapter 4, what World War II battle does Grossman cite as an example of hunger deciding combat?
(a) Iwo Jima.
(b) Normandy.
(c) Midway.
(d) Stalingrad.

6. 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 children.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Their parents.
(d) Their wives.

7. In what war did Lord Moran fight?
(a) The Rhodesian Wars.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The Falklands War.

8. At the beginning of Chapter 1, Grossman says he will only discover the distance guilt relationship as it concerns what?
(a) Warfare.
(b) America.
(c) Humans.
(d) The twentieth century.

9. At the end of Chapter 6, Grossman says that what can provide a sudden injection of fortitude into a unit of men?
(a) Rest.
(b) Victory.
(c) Nothing.
(d) New leadership.

10. At the end of Chapter 4, what reason does Grossman give for the increase in firing and killing in recent wars?
(a) New weapons technology.
(b) The end of the draft.
(c) Less close-raange combat.
(d) Military conditioning practices.

11. In Chapter 7, what does Grossman cite as a powerful examine of of link between violence and sex in popular culture?
(a) Girls-with-guns videos.
(b) Russ Meyer pictures.
(c) Dead teenager slasher films.
(d) Miami Vice.

12. In Chapter 1, Grossman reveals that the majority of active World War II soldiers did what?
(a) Declined to fire their weapons.
(b) Released prisoners-of-war.
(c) Self-harm.
(d) Learned German.

13. In Chapter 6, Grossman points out that hand-to-hand combat creates awareness of what?
(a) Savagery.
(b) Vulnerability.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Interconnectedness.

14. In Chapter 8, what term does Grossman use to refer to those who have killed in war?
(a) Shooters.
(b) Legalized perpetrators.
(c) Combat actives.
(d) Noncriminal killers.

15. In the beginning of Chapter 3, what does the Vietnam vet assume is on the back of the picture in Grossman's story?
(a) Blood.
(b) A goodbye message.
(c) An address.
(d) A date.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the World War II stories of Chapter 4, what do soldiers do to avoid killing?

2. In Chapter 2, what tactic does Grossman describe as key to training soldiers to fire in combat?

3. What does Gossman say edged weapons produce effectively at the beginning of Chapter 5?

4. How many days can a soldier remain in combat before psychological trauma begins to manifest itself?

5. In regards to war, what group of people does Grossman say in Chapter 1 is most distanced in their decision-making?

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