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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 John Ciardi believe could make anyone savage?
(a) Deprivation and suffering.
(b) Uncontrolled anger.
(c) Loyalty to false leadership.
(d) A propaganda barrage.

2. Why did Mike Royko spent nights in a pitch-black apartment as a child during the war?
(a) Chicago was under attack.
(b) His parents were too poor to pay for electricity.
(c) The government cut off electricity.
(d) The air raid wardens called for blackouts.

3. What black market item was in demand among Russian troops in Vienna in 1945?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) Mickey Mouse watches.
(c) Pirated big band music.
(d) Cigarettes.

4. Why did Robert Rasmus believe fighting the Russians would fail?
(a) The Russians were better fighters.
(b) The Russian generals were better strategists.
(c) The Russians were willing to sacrifice millions of troops.
(d) The Russians were better equipped.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Frank Keegan and his high school buddies respond to the invasion of Pearl Harbor?

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

3. What did the Japanese code of war, Bushido, mean?

4. What did Admiral Larocque think of the Japanese during the war?

5. What changes does Admiral Larocque believe WWII caused in American national consciousness?

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