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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 percentage of the marines in the Guadalcanal campaign were under twenty-one years of age?
(a) Eighty percent.
(b) One hundred percent.
(c) Twenty percent.
(d) Fifty percent.

2. How does Dellie Hahne believe military wives were regarded?
(a) Military wives were looked down upon.
(b) Military wives were venerated.
(c) Military wives were overprotected.
(d) Military wives were physically abused.

3. What did the German soldiers want from the captured Americans that the Americans destroyed?
(a) Their ammunition.
(b) Their .45 pistols.
(c) Their machine guns.
(d) Their mortars.

4. Why didn't the American prisoners of war in Germany try to escape?
(a) There was nowhere to go.
(b) They were shackled.
(c) They were afraid they'd be shot.
(d) They were watched every minute.

5. What did Sarah Killingsworth believe the war offered to her and her family?
(a) A path for acceptance in the white world.
(b) Education.
(c) Training.
(d) Jobs that paid well.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Betty Hutchinson say WWII veterans told their children about the war?

3. Why did Robert Rasmus believe fighting the Russians would fail?

4. How does Robert Rasmus feel about life's problems since the war?

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

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