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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 Betty Hutchinson say WWII veterans told their children about the war?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Patriotic slogans.
(c) Funny events.
(d) Horror stories.

2. What was as important to Italian Americans as cars to mainstream Americans before WWII, according to Paul Pisicano?
(a) Cuisine.
(b) Fashion.
(c) Art.
(d) Opera.

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

4. How does Robert Rasmus feel about life's problems since the war?
(a) They're all easier to handle because of that experience.
(b) They're all what he was trained to face.
(c) They're all major by comparison.
(d) They're all minor by comparison.

5. What did Paul Pisicano believe Italian Americans felt about the Axis countries in World War II?
(a) Italian Americans were against Hitler and the Japanese, but not the Italians.
(b) Italian Americans were ashamed of Mussolini.
(c) Italian Americans were neutral about the war.
(d) Italian Americans wanted to fight on Italian soil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Maurice Wilson think when he saw the Japanese war planes over Hawaii?

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

3. Why did Robert Rasmus believe the Americans should be grateful to the Russians?

4. Under the Geneva Convention, what type of work did prisoners of war not have to do?

5. What did people in Paducah burn in a bonfire?

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