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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 civilians saving fat during the war?
(a) To make soap.
(b) To make nitroglycerine.
(c) To make salve.
(d) To make lotions.

2. 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.

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

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

5. What surprised Anton Biler about his Japanese overseer in the prison camp?
(a) He was against the war.
(b) He was kind.
(c) He spoke English.
(d) He was from Seattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Japanese code of war, Bushido, mean?

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

3. How does Mike Royko believe most U.S. soldiers felt about the Korean conflict?

4. How did John Kenneth Galbraith say the bombing of Hamburg increased the German war effort?

5. Why did Robert Rasmus believe fighting the Russians would fail?

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