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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Grossman in Chapter 3, what is the difference between military killing training and that provided by video games?
(a) There is no discernible difference.
(b) Video games stunt hand-eye coordination.
(c) The army directs its training toward an enemy.
(d) The army offers ballistics education.

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

3. What story does Grossman end Chapter 4 with?
(a) A firebombing in the Pacific campaign.
(b) An Iraq vet's return home.
(c) A firefight in Vietnam.
(d) An interchange at a VFW hall.

4. By the late 1990's, approximately how many Vietnam vets were suffering from PTSD?
(a) 600,000.
(b) 75,000.
(c) 2,000,000.
(d) 400,000.

5. What is a common feature of natural warriors presented in Chapter 5?
(a) They come from working class families.
(b) They have no religious affiliation.
(c) They join the military before the age of 25.
(d) They experienced violence as children.

6. In Chapter 2, Grossman says the discussion of the killing process is most effective with which people?
(a) War vets.
(b) School children.
(c) Convicted murderers.
(d) Criminal psychologists.

7. In the anecdote of Chapter 5, what consequence does the German soldier who refuses to take part in an atrocity face?
(a) Mockery.
(b) Forced labor.
(c) Court martial.
(d) Summary execution.

8. What experience described at the end of Chapter 2 caused guilt in Sol, a World War II vet who did not take part in killing?
(a) The bombing of Nagasaki.
(b) The Normandy landing.
(c) The liberation of a concentration camp.
(d) The bombardment of a Japanese island.

9. In Chapter 5, how does Grossman describe natural warriors' attitudes toward less aggressive colleagues?
(a) Protective.
(b) Contemptuous.
(c) Wary.
(d) Dismissive.

10. How does the rationalization of Ray, the Panama vet quoted at the end of Chapter 1, manifest itself?
(a) In political debate.
(b) In a dream.
(c) In religious expression.
(d) In his observation of the victim.

11. In what country did the case-study of Chapter 4 take place?
(a) Congo.
(b) Thailand.
(c) Philippines.
(d) Rwanda.

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

13. Which stage of the killing process did Eric - who shot a VC soldier while he was urinating - skip,as described in Chapter 2?
(a) Regret.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Exhilaration.
(d) Concern.

14. In Chapter 3, what does Grossman delineate as a voice of authority in modern youth killing?
(a) Parents.
(b) Peers.
(c) Media.
(d) Gang leaders.

15. According to Grossman in Chapter 2, what do POW executions do to an enemy?
(a) Break their morale.
(b) Make them more aggressive.
(c) Destroy their civilian support.
(d) Give them reason to murder your POW's

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What form of crime does Grossman indicate is skyrocketing at the beginning of Chapter 1?

3. According to Grossman in Chapter 3, what does the army use in rifle training?

4. In RB Anderson's excerpt in Chapter 1, what aspect of Vietnam does he claim non-vets do not understand?

5. In his anecdote of Chapter 2, what event elicited surprisingly violent action from Richard Heckler?

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