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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 people in San Francisco panicked after Pearl Harbor, according to Dennis Keegan?
(a) They believed Japanese spies had infiltrated the city.
(b) They believed the Japanese would attack them next.
(c) They believed the Germans would attack them next.
(d) They believed the government would draft all young men.

2. Why were the soldiers forbidden to keep diaries?
(a) Families should be protected from sad information.
(b) Diaries found by the enemy could give information.
(c) They were instructed to forget the tragedies they saw.
(d) There would be no time to sit and write.

3. What did Robert Rasmus think when he saw the ambulances arriving on the morning his group was attacking?
(a) That they were all in it together.
(b) That it was inevitable that bad things were about to happen.
(c) That modern medicine was a blessing.
(d) That they would have immediate backup.

4. 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 didn't seem real.
(d) They were boys like him.

5. What did E.B. Sledge say the war did to American soldiers?
(a) Turned them into savages.
(b) Turned them into patriots.
(c) Turned them into idiots.
(d) Turned them into cowards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What worried Peggy Terry when the tetryl she was working with turned her hair orange?

2. Which city suffered the highest death toll from American bombing?

3. Which college students were drafted earliest, according to Akira Miuri?

4. What was John Abbott's sentence for refusing the draft?

5. Why does Jack Short think the GI bill might have been detrimental in the long run?

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