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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 did people in Paducah burn in a bonfire?
(a) All their Japanese products.
(b) Emperor Hirohito's effigy.
(c) Posters of Hitler.
(d) All their German products.

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

3. Why were the soldiers forbidden to keep diaries?
(a) They were instructed to forget the tragedies they saw.
(b) Families should be protected from sad information.
(c) There would be no time to sit and write.
(d) Diaries found by the enemy could give information.

4. What did E.B. Sledge say the war did to American soldiers?
(a) Turned them into savages.
(b) Turned them into idiots.
(c) Turned them into cowards.
(d) Turned them into patriots.

5. Why does Richard Prendergast say the pillboxes were of no use to the infantrymen?
(a) The soldiers had to keep marching past them.
(b) They had all been blasted to pieces.
(c) They faced the wrong way.
(d) They were hiding places for German infantrymen.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why did Peter Bezich's son go to prison?

4. Why was Peter Bezich ordered to sell his boat?

5. What unusual food did Maurice Wilson eat in the Philippines?

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