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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. When does a soldier's guilt following an atrocity become completely unavoidable?
(a) When the war is a domestic conflict.
(b) When he is already depressed.
(c) When he returns to a peacetime situation.
(d) When his side loses.

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

3. To what presidency does Grossman apply the killing process in Chapter 2?
(a) Franklin Roosevelt.
(b) Ronald Reagan.
(c) Andrew Johnson.
(d) George HW Bush.

4. 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 must be perpetrated by a group.
(c) It is inherently violent.
(d) It is experienced by every person.

5. Which of the following is not a point of the Weinberger Doctrine?
(a) Soldiers must be sent in sufficient numbers to accomplish goals.
(b) Soldiers must be armed with newest developed weaponry.
(c) Military should only be sent when vital interests are at stake.
(d) Military deployment should be a last resort.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In World War II, only 15-20 percent of riflemen made it past which stage of killing?

3. In conditioning soldiers to fire quickly, what has the military not prepared them for?

4. Which of the following is not an example provided in Chapter 2 of Vietnam's "dirty" combat?

5. In Chapter 2, Grossman indicates that committing an atrocity can cause what within a group?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence does Grossman provide that violence among youth has increased dramatically since the 1950s?

2. What are the defining characteristics of a natural warrior?

3. What is the Weinberger Doctrine?

4. What hypothetical situation does Grossman relate in Chapter 3?

5. As described in Chapter 2, how do children progress through increasingly violent entertainment?

6. Which essential qualities makes a role model desirable as listed in Chapter 4?

7. What solution did the American military devise to deal with low firing rates in World War II?

8. How does Grossman explain murder-suicide in terms of the killing process in Chapter 2?

9. How does Grossman apply the killing process to the national mood in Chapter 2?

10. According to Grossman in Chapter 3, what is the difference between military killing training and that provided by video games?

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