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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. What did Jean Wood say was the result of deprivation during the war?
(a) People became demoralized.
(b) People became discouraged.
(c) People became selfish.
(d) People became inventive.

2. What does Robert Lekachman believe was his salvation in the war?
(a) His lack of ability kept him out of OCS.
(b) His poor eyesight kept him out of gunnery school.
(c) His skill with strategy made him an officer.
(d) His physical weakness kept him out of the infantry.

3. What does the classification 4E mean to a soldier?
(a) Potential Communist.
(b) Unfit for active duty.
(c) Conscientious objector.
(d) Premature anti-Fascist.

4. What does Peter Ota tell us is worse than death in Japanese culture?
(a) Dishonesty.
(b) Shame.
(c) Unkindness.
(d) Fear.

5. How did the Japanese people feel about the Japanese war veterans?
(a) Mistrustful.
(b) Worshipful.
(c) Grateful.
(d) Resentful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a PAF?

2. What unusual food did Maurice Wilson eat in the Philippines?

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

4. What was a Victory Garden?

5. How was Sheril Cunning's mother's war experience like the New York Stock Exchange?

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