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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Crime and Punishment, A Turning Point, and Chilly Winds..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did a recruit from another country have to be in the U.S. army to become a citizen?
(a) One hundred and eighty days.
(b) Ninety days.
(c) Four full years.
(d) Two years.

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

3. Why did Mike Royko spent nights in a pitch-black apartment as a child during the war?
(a) His parents were too poor to pay for electricity.
(b) The government cut off electricity.
(c) The air raid wardens called for blackouts.
(d) Chicago was under attack.

4. What did Jean Wood say was the result of deprivation during the war?
(a) People became selfish.
(b) People became discouraged.
(c) People became inventive.
(d) People became demoralized.

5. How long was the Bataan Death March?
(a) Forty miles.
(b) Sixty miles.
(c) Twenty miles.
(d) Two hundred miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Joe Marcus, why are military men sympathetic to business?

2. Why does Richard Prendergast say the pillboxes were of no use to the infantrymen?

3. What effect does Richard Leacock claim direct contact with death had upon him?

4. What did Ted Allenby promise the homosexual soldiers in his chaplaincy?

5. What is a dogfight?

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