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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 Robert Rasmus feel looking at the faces of the German dead?
(a) They were brutish and cruel.
(b) They were an abstraction, not human beings.
(c) They were boys like him.
(d) They didn't seem real.

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

3. Why does Richard Prendergast say the pillboxes were of no use to the infantrymen?
(a) They had all been blasted to pieces.
(b) They were hiding places for German infantrymen.
(c) They faced the wrong way.
(d) The soldiers had to keep marching past them.

4. How does General William Buster feel about the Vietnam War?
(a) He thinks it was necessary.
(b) He thinks it was heroic.
(c) He thinks it was unnecessary.
(d) He thinks it was useless.

5. Why does Robert Rasmus say he could remember people he knew for a short time many years ago?
(a) He looks at the yearbooks from time to time.
(b) His short-term memory is weaker.
(c) They kept in touch over the years.
(d) The war made everything more memorable.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Ursula Bender feel about the war as a six-year-old child?

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

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

5. What is a dogfight?

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