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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 were newsmen in the OWI not allowed to do?
(a) Broadcast non-official news.
(b) Broadcast news.
(c) Broadcast commentary.
(d) Broadcast breaking stories.

2. What did John Baker know if he heard an up-and-down howling siren as a child?
(a) A ground attack was imminent.
(b) A ground attack was over.
(c) An air attack was over.
(d) An air attack was in progress.

3. How was Sheril Cunning's mother's war experience like the New York Stock Exchange?
(a) Neighbors gambled on commodities futures.
(b) Neighbors bought war bonds together.
(c) Neighbors traded coupons for commodities.
(d) Neighbors bet on the outcome of battles.

4. What did Dr. Drude teach his high school students in Hamburg about the Nazis?
(a) The Nazis could be defeated.
(b) The Nazis were incorruptible.
(c) The Nazis were morally correct.
(d) The Nazis were unconquerable.

5. How does film critic Pauline Kael feel about the World War II movies?
(a) They were a great support to the public.
(b) They were propaganda.
(c) They were beautiful.
(d) They were harshly realistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Betty Hutchinson say WWII veterans told their children about the war?

2. What was John Abbott's sentence for refusing the draft?

3. What is the difference between an Anderson shelter and a Morrison shelter?

4. What worried Peggy Terry when the tetryl she was working with turned her hair orange?

5. How long did a recruit from another country have to be in the U.S. army to become a citizen?

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