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

2. What did first-generation Japanese parents mean when they taught their children, gaman?
(a) Understand.
(b) Learn.
(c) Enjoy.
(d) Perservere.

3. How does Dellie Hahne believe military wives were regarded?
(a) Military wives were venerated.
(b) Military wives were physically abused.
(c) Military wives were looked down upon.
(d) Military wives were overprotected.

4. 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) Chicago was under attack.
(d) His parents were too poor to pay for electricity.

5. Why was Peter Bezich ordered to sell his boat?
(a) His buddies were jealous.
(b) He was envied by the local Filipinos.
(c) He was suspected of trying to escape.
(d) He was getting strafed by his own men.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did American soldiers kill Hawaiian civilians?

2. What did the Japanese code of war, Bushido, mean?

3. Why were the soldiers forbidden to keep diaries?

4. What does Dellie Hahne say was the duty of young women during the war?

5. What did Paul Pisicano believe Italian Americans felt about the Axis countries in World War II?

(see the answer key)

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