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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 does Jack Short think the GI bill might have been detrimental in the long run?
(a) People didn't get paid enough.
(b) People could get money without working for it.
(c) People developed false hopes for education.
(d) People had false expectations for home ownership.

2. What was a shadow box?
(a) A place to hide during strafing.
(b) A place to take photos.
(c) A place to show movies.
(d) A place to make movies.

3. What were the two big top secret projects?
(a) The D-Day Project and the V-J Day Project.
(b) The China Project and the Brooklyn Project.
(c) The Antarctic Project and the Los Alamos Project.
(d) The Manhattan Project and the Arctic Circle Project.

4. According to Tommy Corcoran, why did Britain decide to fight Japan?
(a) They were already mobilized against Hitler.
(b) They were outraged by Pearl Harbor.
(c) British interests in the Far East were imperiled.
(d) They were supporting their ally, China.

5. Why was Peggy Terry happy during the war?
(a) Shewanted to help defeat Hitler.
(b) For the first time, she had enough money.
(c) She enjoyed the sense of camaraderie.
(d) She loved her job.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Dellie Hahne believe military wives were regarded?

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

4. What did the German soldiers want from the captured Americans that the Americans destroyed?

5. What surprised Anton Biler about his Japanese overseer in the prison camp?

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