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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sudden Money and The Big Panjandrum.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Londoners run toward parachuting soldiers?
(a) They could use the paracutes to make clothing.
(b) They wanted to assist the Allied soldiers.
(c) They wanted to arrest the enemy soldiers.
(d) They wanted to confiscate their weapons.

2. Why did Peter Bezich's son go to prison?
(a) He burned the flag.
(b) He tried to assassinate the president.
(c) He refused to be drafted.
(d) He joined the Communist party.

3. Why does Richard Prendergast say the pillboxes were of no use to the infantrymen?
(a) They faced the wrong way.
(b) They had all been blasted to pieces.
(c) They were hiding places for German infantrymen.
(d) The soldiers had to keep marching past them.

4. What was the first English phrase Japanese children learned after the war?
(a) "Thank you very much."
(b) "Panel discussion."
(c) "Merry Christmas to you, too."
(d) "It wasn't my fault."

5. According to Lee Oremont, what effect did price controls during the war have on the economy?
(a) Price controls made consumers over-confident.
(b) Price controls made producers dependent.
(c) Price controls nearly destroyed the economy.
(d) Price controls prevented a devastating inflation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Galatea Berger remember soldiers smelled in Germany?

2. What does Robert Lekachman believe was his salvation in the war?

3. Why was Peggy Terry happy during the war?

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

5. What proportion of the inhabitants of Leningrad died when Hitler's forces laid siege to the city?

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