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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. How did American soldiers kill Hawaiian civilians?
(a) Dropping bombs on Honolulu.
(b) Believing they were Japanese spies.
(c) Firing short-range weapons at Japanese airplanes.
(d) Confusing them with Japanese army personnel.

2. What did E.B. Sledge say the war did to American soldiers?
(a) Turned them into savages.
(b) Turned them into idiots.
(c) Turned them into patriots.
(d) Turned them into cowards.

3. What caused Dellie Hahne to begin to distrust her government?
(a) The ration system.
(b) The unkind treatment of war brides.
(c) The pressure to marry a soldier.
(d) The change in status of Russia from enemy to ally.

4. What did the British women do with their goods during the war?
(a) Sold them.
(b) Swapped them.
(c) Hid them.
(d) Hoarded them.

5. Why did Peter Bezich's son go to prison?
(a) He burned the flag.
(b) He refused to be drafted.
(c) He tried to assassinate the president.
(d) He joined the Communist party.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Mike Royko believe most U.S. soldiers felt about the Korean conflict?

3. What causes the disease of beriberi, that stops kidney function?

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

5. What does John Ciardi believe could make anyone savage?

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