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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. 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 killed him.
(c) He thought he escaped.
(d) He thought he was an American.

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

3. In Chapter 2, what is a socially humiliating act regarding modern media?
(a) Preferring older movies.
(b) Believing the events of the film are real.
(c) Crying during sappy moments.
(d) Averting gaze during violence.

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

5. In the anecdote at the beginning of Chapter 3, what is the soldier surprised he did in his first firefight?
(a) Engaged the enemy.
(b) Cried.
(c) Retreated.
(d) Urinated on himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the rationalization of Ray, the Panama vet quoted at the end of Chapter 1, manifest itself?

2. Which of the following is not a point of the Weinberger Doctrine?

3. What public figure's death is referenced in the end of Chapter 2 to illustrate the relationship of nudity and violence?

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

5. According to Grossman in Chapter 2, what do POW executions do to an enemy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the strange story of the CIA guard at the end of Chapter 1?

2. What is the Weinberger Doctrine?

3. In Chapter 2, what does Grossman say an atrocity does to a combat unit's group dynamic?

4. In Chapter 5, how does Grossman illustrate the danger of refusing to take part in an atrocity?

5. Why was combat in Vietnam particularly dirty, as described in Chapter 2?

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

7. According to Grossman, why do young people idolize entertainment figures more than police and politicians?

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

9. What separates a natural warrior from a psychopath?

10. What examples from Chapter 6 illustrate a problematic relationship with women in the military?

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