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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rosie, Neighborhood Boys, and Reflections on Machismo.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of the marines in the Guadalcanal campaign were under twenty-one years of age?
(a) Fifty percent.
(b) One hundred percent.
(c) Twenty percent.
(d) Eighty percent.

2. What did Sarah Killingsworth believe the war offered to her and her family?
(a) Jobs that paid well.
(b) Training.
(c) A path for acceptance in the white world.
(d) Education.

3. 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) Chicago was under attack.
(c) His parents were too poor to pay for electricity.
(d) The government cut off electricity.

4. Why didn't Maurice Wilson think the Filipinos would hide American escapees from the Japanese prison camp?
(a) The Filipinos were enemies as well.
(b) The Filipinos were afraid of the Japanese.
(c) The Filipinos hated the Americans.
(d) The Filipinos would turn them in for the reward.

5. How did Robert Rasmus feel about escaping the Battle of the Bulge because of the flu?
(a) He was thrilled.
(b) He was heartbroken.
(c) He was relieved.
(d) He was thankful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were civilians saving fat during the war?

2. How did Frank Keegan respond to the bombing of Hiroshima?

3. What did the German soldiers want from the captured Americans that the Americans destroyed?

4. How long was the Bataan Death March?

5. What was each soldier's ration of cigarettes?

(see the answer key)

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