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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flying High and Up Front with Pen, Camera, and Mike.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the classification 4E mean to a soldier?
(a) Potential Communist.
(b) Unfit for active duty.
(c) Premature anti-Fascist.
(d) Conscientious objector.

2. Why did Mike Royko spent nights in a pitch-black apartment as a child during the war?
(a) The air raid wardens called for blackouts.
(b) The government cut off electricity.
(c) His parents were too poor to pay for electricity.
(d) Chicago was under attack.

3. Why were the Japanese pleased when American officers chose their homes to occupy?
(a) It meant they would receive reparations.
(b) It meant they would get rent payments.
(c) It meant their homes were superior.
(d) It meant they would have plenty of food.

4. What does Paul Pisicano believe binds American suburbians?
(a) Anti-Italian sentiment.
(b) Anti-Jewish sentiment.
(c) Anti-black sentiment.
(d) Anti-German sentiment.

5. Why should John Houseman not have been allowed to broadcast on the Voice of America?
(a) He was a German national.
(b) He was a Socialist.
(c) He was a Communist.
(d) He was an enemy alien.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attacked Mexican youth in Los Angeles during the Zoot Suit riots?

2. According to Alfred Duckett, what bothered black soldiers most?

3. Why was Peggy Terry happy during the war?

4. What did John Baker know if he heard an up-and-down howling siren as a child?

5. After the war, how did the community in Long Beach change, according to Sheril Cunning?

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