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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Grossman credit with reducing the number of homicides in America in Chapter 1?
(a) Community outreach.
(b) Better medical technology.
(c) Gun control laws.
(d) Improved economic conditions.

2. In Grossman's Chapter 2 trajectory of increasingly violent media, where do children go after cartoons?
(a) Comic books.
(b) TV cop shows.
(c) PG-13 movies.
(d) Violent music.

3. During what component of military training is the most important conditioning happening according to Grossman in Chapter 1?
(a) Stamina training.
(b) Strength training.
(c) Army standards training.
(d) Marksmanship training.

4. In Chapter 1, what weapon does Grossman use as an example of a homemade killing implement?
(a) A shiv.
(b) An IED.
(c) A spring gun.
(d) A sawed-off shotgun.

5. According to Grossman in Chapter 4, who is manipulating the wills of American youth without their consent?
(a) The military.
(b) Entertainment figures.
(c) Their teachers.
(d) Communists.

6. As related in Chapter 5, Stellman and Stellman studied what?
(a) PTSD.
(b) Military suicides.
(c) Just war theory.
(d) The killing process.

7. According to Grossman in Chapter 1, what was the solution the American military's solution after World War II to many soldiers more willing to shoot?
(a) Advances in rifle firing range.
(b) More careful recruiting screening.
(c) Psychological bombardment.
(d) An all-volunteer army.

8. At the beginning of Chapter 4, what distinction does Grossman make between social learning and the previous two types of conditioning?
(a) It is unique to primates.
(b) It is inherently violent.
(c) It must be perpetrated by a group.
(d) It is experienced by every person.

9. What mistaken impression did the ex-CIA officer whose story appears at the end of Chapter 1 have about his prisoner?
(a) He thought he was a relative.
(b) He thought he was an American.
(c) He thought he killed him.
(d) He thought he escaped.

10. In conditioning soldiers to fire quickly, what has the military not prepared them for?
(a) Defending against equally hostile fire.
(b) Telling friend from foe.
(c) Dealing emotionally with killing.
(d) Returning to civilian life.

11. As related in Chapter 6, which catalyzing event occurred to Calley's platoon the day before the My Lai massacre?
(a) A soldier tripped a booby trap.
(b) The Golf of Tonkin incident occured.
(c) The platoon was ambushed by VC.
(d) Calley's wife divorced him.

12. In Chapter 2, what advice do German World War I vets give World War II recruits?
(a) Kill any Russian you encounter.
(b) Surrender to the Americans.
(c) Do not distinguish between civilian and enemy.
(d) Go AWOL near the Swiss border.

13. Which of the following is not a response to killing as described at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Remorse.
(b) Denial.
(c) Rationalization.
(d) Acceptance.

14. To what does John Foster compare combat in Chapter 1?
(a) Mountain climbing.
(b) Volleyball.
(c) Making love.
(d) Driving a car.

15. What stigma constitutes a gray atrocity?
(a) One in which lines between ally and enemy are gone.
(b) One in which both sides face civilian casualties.
(c) One in which individual soldiers act without orders.
(d) One in which loss of life is minimal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a category of atrocity listed in Chapter 1?

2. Which of the following is not an item that aids in rationalization and acceptance as delineated at the beginning of Chapter 2?

3. How were tours of duty different in Vietnam compared to other wars?

4. To what presidency does Grossman apply the killing process in Chapter 2?

5. In what country did the case-study of Chapter 4 take place?

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