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

2. Where was Robert Rasmus when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) Fighting in France.
(b) Training for the invasion of Japan.
(c) Fighting in Germany.
(d) Fighting in the South Pacific.

3. How long was the Bataan Death March?
(a) Two hundred miles.
(b) Forty miles.
(c) Sixty miles.
(d) Twenty miles.

4. What did Ted Allenby promise the homosexual soldiers in his chaplaincy?
(a) "I will guarantee your veteran's benefits."
(b) "I will pave the way for you to stay in the military."
(c) "I will fight for your civil rights."
(d) "I will pave the way for you to get out of the military."

5. How many support personnel were behind each rifleman?
(a) Seven.
(b) Twenty-four.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was as important to Italian Americans as cars to mainstream Americans before WWII, according to Paul Pisicano?

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

4. Why were the soldiers forbidden to keep diaries?

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

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