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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. According to James Rowe, why should government rationing not have been employed?
(a) People were willing to go without.
(b) Shortages might not have occured.
(c) Shortages would have created less antagonism.
(d) Market forces would have stabilized supply and demand.

2. What is a thirteen-week wonder?
(a) A soldier who completed boot camp training.
(b) A new recruit.
(c) A soldier discharged for poor health.
(d) A product of Officers' Candidate School.

3. What does Paul Pisicano believe binds American suburbians?
(a) Anti-Italian sentiment.
(b) Anti-Jewish sentiment.
(c) Anti-German sentiment.
(d) Anti-black sentiment.

4. What did most conversations among prisoners of war center around?
(a) Sports.
(b) Sex.
(c) Food.
(d) Politics.

5. Why didn't the American prisoners of war in Germany try to escape?
(a) They were afraid they'd be shot.
(b) They were watched every minute.
(c) They were shackled.
(d) There was nowhere to go.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the soldiers forbidden to keep diaries?

2. How did Robert Rasmus feel about escaping the Battle of the Bulge because of the flu?

3. Why did Robert Rasmus believe the Americans should be grateful to the Russians?

4. Why were the Japanese pleased when American officers chose their homes to occupy?

5. What did Robert Rasmus think when he saw the ambulances arriving on the morning his group was attacking?

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