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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what tactic does Grossman describe as key to training soldiers to fire in combat?
(a) Encouragement.
(b) Drilling.
(c) Education.
(d) Alcohol.

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

3. In the study cited by Grossman at the end of Chapter 5, what stimulus was applied to test dogs?
(a) Extreme cold.
(b) Electric shocks.
(c) Loud noises.
(d) Rotten food.

4. In the Crimean War anecdote in Chapter 1, what do the soldiers do when confronted with an enemy at ten paces?
(a) They shake hands.
(b) They surrender.
(c) They throw rocks.
(d) They bayonet them.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the unifying element that links all of the coping tactics in Chapter 3?

2. Which of the following is not a stage of Stockholm Syndrome?

3. In Chapter 7, what does Grossman cite as a powerful examine of of link between violence and sex in popular culture?

4. At the end of Chapter 8, what does Grossman say psychiatrists need to explore to treat traumatized servicemen?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a crew-served weapon?

2. Describe the Vietnam story of Chapter 4.

3. What assertion regarding military psychiatrists does Grossman make at the end of Chapter 8?

4. How was the Roman centurion model more effective than the Greek phalanx, according to Grossman?

5. How does Grossman use his distance-guilt corollary to explain the oppression of the poor in Chapter 1?

6. What does hard-to-soft mean?

7. What is surprising about the study cited in Chapter 1 regarding what compels soldiers to shoot?

8. How did military predictions regarding civilian bombings and psychiatric casualties prove completely wrong in World War II?

9. What is punishment justification?

10. Describe the metaphor Grossman uses for fortitude in Chapter 6?

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