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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 Ted Allenby promise the homosexual soldiers in his chaplaincy?
(a) "I will pave the way for you to stay in the military."
(b) "I will fight for your civil rights."
(c) "I will pave the way for you to get out of the military."
(d) "I will guarantee your veteran's benefits."

2. How did Robert Rasmus feel looking at the faces of the German dead?
(a) They were brutish and cruel.
(b) They were boys like him.
(c) They were an abstraction, not human beings.
(d) They didn't seem real.

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

4. What right for ex-felons did John Abbott win in the Supreme Court?
(a) The right to gather in meetings.
(b) The right to marry.
(c) The right to work for federal agencies.
(d) The right to vote.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Paul Pisicano believe binds American suburbians?

3. What surprised Anton Biler about his Japanese overseer in the prison camp?

4. What does Peter Ota tell us is worse than death in Japanese culture?

5. Where does Richard Prendergast say the lower-ranked person walked with an officer?

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