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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. Why were thirty-two American servicemen killed after hearing the announcement of Japan's surrender?
(a) Stray bullets from the celebration.
(b) Executions for war crimes.
(c) Collisions caused by drunk driving.
(d) Retaliation from the Hawaiian Japanese.

2. What did Jean Wood say happened to British morals during the war?
(a) They were compromised.
(b) They disappeared.
(c) They improved.
(d) They disintegrated.

3. Why was Peter Bezich ordered to sell his boat?
(a) He was envied by the local Filipinos.
(b) He was suspected of trying to escape.
(c) His buddies were jealous.
(d) He was getting strafed by his own men.

4. What did soldiers on troop ships understand about their destination, according to General William Buster?
(a) Only where they would spend the first few weeks after landing.
(b) Only what their mission would be upon landing.
(c) Only where they were landing.
(d) Nothing.

5. How did Frank Keegan and his high school buddies respond to the invasion of Pearl Harbor?
(a) Built bomb shelters.
(b) Waited with guns on the beach.
(c) Enlisted in the army.
(d) Waited to be drafted.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did the soldiers in the Philippines write home, "Cancel the bonds."

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

4. How did John Ciardi feel about the dropping of the atomic bomb?

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

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