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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 were people in San Francisco panicked after Pearl Harbor, according to Dennis Keegan?
(a) They believed Japanese spies had infiltrated the city.
(b) They believed the Germans would attack them next.
(c) They believed the Japanese would attack them next.
(d) They believed the government would draft all young men.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Richard Prendergast say the biggest infantrymen are placed?

3. How long was the Bataan Death March?

4. What black market item was in demand among Russian troops in Vienna in 1945?

5. How does film critic Pauline Kael feel about the World War II movies?

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