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

2. Where does Richard Prendergast say the biggest infantrymen are placed?
(a) In the tanks.
(b) In the rear with machine guns.
(c) On the front line carrying rifles.
(d) Behind the rifles carrying mortars.

3. What did the Japanese code of war, Bushido, mean?
(a) No surrender.
(b) In it to win it.
(c) Do your best.
(d) Be all you can be.

4. What surprised Anton Biler about his Japanese overseer in the prison camp?
(a) He spoke English.
(b) He was kind.
(c) He was against the war.
(d) He was from Seattle.

5. Where was Robert Rasmus when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) Training for the invasion of Japan.
(b) Fighting in France.
(c) Fighting in the South Pacific.
(d) Fighting in Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was as important to Italian Americans as cars to mainstream Americans before WWII, according to Paul Pisicano?

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

3. What percentage of the marines in the Guadalcanal campaign were under twenty-one years of age?

4. Why were civilians saving fat during the war?

5. Why did MacArthur land twice when returning to the Philippines?

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