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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 American soldiers kill Hawaiian civilians?
(a) Believing they were Japanese spies.
(b) Confusing them with Japanese army personnel.
(c) Dropping bombs on Honolulu.
(d) Firing short-range weapons at Japanese airplanes.

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

3. What was each soldier's ration of cigarettes?
(a) A carton a week.
(b) A pack a week.
(c) A carton a day.
(d) A pack a day.

4. What did Betty Hutchinson say WWII veterans told their children about the war?
(a) Patriotic slogans.
(b) Horror stories.
(c) Funny events.
(d) Nothing.

5. How does Robert Rasmus feel about life's problems since the war?
(a) They're all easier to handle because of that experience.
(b) They're all what he was trained to face.
(c) They're all minor by comparison.
(d) They're all major by comparison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What black market item was in demand among Russian troops in Vienna in 1945?

2. What unusual food did Ken Hourigan eat in the Philippines?

3. Why were civilians saving fat during the war?

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

5. Why did Londoners run toward parachuting soldiers?

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