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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. Which of the following theorists presents evidence concerning tactical attractiveness of a victim?
(a) Swank.
(b) Shalit.
(c) Milgram.
(d) Mashall.

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

3. As related in Chapter 5, Stellman and Stellman studied what?
(a) Military suicides.
(b) Just war theory.
(c) PTSD.
(d) The killing process.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what presidency does Grossman apply the killing process in Chapter 2?

2. To what does John Foster compare combat in Chapter 1?

3. In Chapter 2, what advice do German World War I vets give World War II recruits?

4. By 1971, what percentage of evacuations from Vietnam was related to psychiatric problems?

5. According to Grossman in Chapter 1, which type of combatants are more prone than most to a powerful exhilaration stage?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the Weinberger Doctrine?

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

10. What warning about video games does Grossman make at the end of Chapter 3?

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