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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 7, Grossman says what has made killing easier for soldiers?
(a) A violent media.
(b) Technology.
(c) Training.
(d) A new enemy.

2. According to Grossman in Chapter 2, who is often given the cold shoulder in the military?
(a) Newly-commisioned officers.
(b) Diplomats.
(c) Snipers.
(d) Grunts.

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

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

5. According to Grossman in Chapter 1, what is the primary duty of the leader of a Greek phalanx?
(a) To reform the formation when someone fell.
(b) The stategize behind lines.
(c) To fight with the men.
(d) The deliver orders.

6. What conversion did most military personnel make to their bayonets in combat?
(a) They used the blunt end of them.
(b) They used them as hand weapons.
(c) They removed them completely.
(d) They attached them upside down.

7. Freud, as quoted in Chapter 1, stresses the ascendancy of man's desire to what?
(a) Prove himself.
(b) Reproduce.
(c) Be validated.
(d) Obey.

8. In Chapter 2, what civilian activity does Grossman use to illustrate the distance-guilt relationship?
(a) Rape.
(b) Corporate layoffs.
(c) Urban crime.
(d) Eating meat.

9. Why does fight-or-flight not come into play in a battle situation?
(a) Battle is a collective exercise.
(b) Soldiers are armed with weapons.
(c) Soldiers are on the same stratus of the food chain.
(d) Soldiers are able to communicate verbally with each other.

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

11. In the final story of Chapter 4, the one in which an American and Viet Cong soldier happen upon each other, who is killed?
(a) The Viet Cong.
(b) Both men.
(c) The American.
(d) Neither man.

12. What term arose in the early 1990's to describe the new fighting techniques seen in the Gulf War?
(a) Mail-order war.
(b) Telegraph war.
(c) Calling-card war.
(d) Nintendo war.

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

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

15. 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 Kurdish secession.
(d) A US invasion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a sign of psychological trauma discussed in Chapter 1?

2. With what term does Grossman describe the reticence of the military to discuss non-firing in Chapter 3?

3. According to Grossman in Chapter 3, why would racially and ethnically dominant rhetoric by American leaders have been unhelpful in the Iraq War?

4. In Chapter 1, Grossman reveals that the majority of active World War II soldiers did what?

5. How does the military normally deal with the problem of exhaustion in combat?

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