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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 7 begins with several vets joking about raping and murdering which public figure?
(a) Hillary Clinton.
(b) Jane Fonda.
(c) Gloria Steinem.
(d) Susan Sarandon.

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

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

4. Which of the following is a component of Demands of Authority as delineated in Chapter 1?
(a) Weaponry possessed by commander.
(b) Personal relationship with commander.
(c) Intensity of demand to kill.
(d) Number of orders given.

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

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

7. What is the unifying element that links all of the coping tactics in Chapter 3?
(a) Distance.
(b) Experience.
(c) Enibriation.
(d) Trance.

8. What fear did Saddam Hussein seize upon to hold on to power, as discussed in Chapter 2?
(a) A Shiite backlash.
(b) Iranian influx.
(c) A US invasion.
(d) A Kurdish secession.

9. According to Chapter 4, warfare is the process of giving individuals the means for what?
(a) Self-actualization.
(b) Courage.
(c) Destruction.
(d) Strategic superiority.

10. According to Grossman at the end of Chapter 2, what is the most effective treatment for psychiatric casualties?
(a) Time away from combat.
(b) Medication.
(c) Freudian therapy.
(d) Jungian therapy.

11. Which of the following is not an animal that Grossman uses as an example of sexual dominating behavior at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Ram.
(b) Gorilla.
(c) Stag.
(d) Orca.

12. 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) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 50.

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

14. In Chapter 7, an anonymous soldier compares what horrific incident to masturbation?
(a) The Cultural Revolution.
(b) The Katyn massacre.
(c) The Battle of Shiloh.
(d) The My Lai massacre.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Freud, as quoted in Chapter 1, stresses the ascendancy of man's desire to what?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 1, Grossman says he will only discover the distance guilt relationship as it concerns what?

4. Aside from officers, which individuals are often killed in combat for their toll on morale?

5. In Chapter 4, what World War II battle does Grossman cite as an example of hunger deciding combat?

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