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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 does Robert Lekachman believe happened for the last time in World War II?
(a) Americans were patriotic.
(b) Americans hated another nation.
(c) Americans saw themselves as good.
(d) Americans helped other nations.

2. What does the classification 4E mean to a soldier?
(a) Potential Communist.
(b) Unfit for active duty.
(c) Premature anti-Fascist.
(d) Conscientious objector.

3. What unusual food did Maurice Wilson eat in the Philippines?
(a) Horses.
(b) Cats.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Mice.

4. Why did the Japanese overseers get angry if the American prisoners killed a snake?
(a) They didn't want prisoners fighting over food.
(b) They liked to eat snake.
(c) They worshipped snakes.
(d) They didn't want working prisoners poisoned.

5. Why was Peggy Terry happy during the war?
(a) Shewanted to help defeat Hitler.
(b) For the first time, she had enough money.
(c) She enjoyed the sense of camaraderie.
(d) She loved her job.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Frank Keegan respond to the bombing of Hiroshima?

2. Why did the Germans want to keep the American prisoners of war out of Allied hands?

3. Why were people in San Francisco panicked after Pearl Harbor, according to Dennis Keegan?

4. What was each soldier's ration of cigarettes?

5. Why did Mike Royko spent nights in a pitch-black apartment as a child during the war?

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