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

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

3. What is different about the way the way the hypothetical World War II and Vietnam vets returned home in Chapter 3?
(a) The amount of killing they were asked to do.
(b) The race of the vets.
(c) The time it takes.
(d) The number that are alive.

4. Where did the VFW Hall story at the beginning of Chapter 1 take place?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Florida.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) New York.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what is a socially humiliating act regarding modern media?

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

3. 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?

4. In the beginning of Chapter 4, Grossman says the highest estimate for the number of Vietnam vets with PTSD is what?

5. What unacceptable practice was included in military training in 1975?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the three categories of atrocity as delineated in Chapter 1?

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

3. What factors traditionally assist in rationalization and acceptance after combat?

4. What separates a natural warrior from a psychopath?

5. In Chapter 6, what factors contribute to a soldier's decision to kill in the chart presented and discussed?

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

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

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

9. Describe the strange dichotomy between nudity and killing in Western culture?

10. What surprising insight into Vietnam does RB Anderson make in Chapter 1?

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