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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through High Rank and The Bombers and the Bombed.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why were the soldiers forbidden to keep diaries?
(a) Diaries found by the enemy could give information.
(b) Families should be protected from sad information.
(c) They were instructed to forget the tragedies they saw.
(d) There would be no time to sit and write.

3. What did people in Paducah burn in a bonfire?
(a) All their German products.
(b) All their Japanese products.
(c) Emperor Hirohito's effigy.
(d) Posters of Hitler.

4. Why does Jack Short think the GI bill might have been detrimental in the long run?
(a) People developed false hopes for education.
(b) People didn't get paid enough.
(c) People could get money without working for it.
(d) People had false expectations for home ownership.

5. Why didn't Maurice Wilson think the Filipinos would hide American escapees from the Japanese prison camp?
(a) The Filipinos hated the Americans.
(b) The Filipinos were enemies as well.
(c) The Filipinos would turn them in for the reward.
(d) The Filipinos were afraid of the Japanese.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't the American prisoners of war in Germany try to escape?

2. Why did Londoners run toward parachuting soldiers?

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

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

5. What unusual food did Ken Hourigan eat in the Philippines?

(see the answer key)

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