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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 causes the disease of beriberi, that stops kidney function?
(a) Lack of protein.
(b) Lack of Vitamin C.
(c) Lack of potassium.
(d) Lack of Vitamin B1.

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

3. What does Robert Lekachman believe was his salvation in the war?
(a) His poor eyesight kept him out of gunnery school.
(b) His physical weakness kept him out of the infantry.
(c) His lack of ability kept him out of OCS.
(d) His skill with strategy made him an officer.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Paul Pisicano believe Italian Americans felt about the Axis countries in World War II?

2. What does Peter Ota tell us is worse than death in Japanese culture?

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

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

5. How long did a recruit from another country have to be in the U.S. army to become a citizen?

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