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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Crime and Punishment, A Turning Point, and Chilly Winds..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the German soldiers want from the captured Americans that the Americans destroyed?
(a) Their ammunition.
(b) Their .45 pistols.
(c) Their mortars.
(d) Their machine guns.

2. How did the people of Pasadena react to the sight of wounded veterans?
(a) With parades in their honor.
(b) With visits to the VA hospitals.
(c) With gifts and offers of help.
(d) With requests to keep them off the streets.

3. Why did American prisoners of war like to trade Red Cross packages with Indian prisoners of war?
(a) The Indians had fresh produce.
(b) The Indians liked American jerky and cookies.
(c) The Indians liked blood sausage.
(d) The Indians did not smoke or eat meat, so traded those items.

4. Why did Mike Royko spent nights in a pitch-black apartment as a child during the war?
(a) The government cut off electricity.
(b) His parents were too poor to pay for electricity.
(c) Chicago was under attack.
(d) The air raid wardens called for blackouts.

5. What percentage of the marines in the Guadalcanal campaign were under twenty-one years of age?
(a) One hundred percent.
(b) Eighty percent.
(c) Twenty percent.
(d) Fifty percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect did John Wayne war movies have on Japanese children living in California, according to Sheril Cunning?

2. What does Robert Lekachman believe happened for the last time in World War II?

3. What was a Victory Garden?

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

5. What impressed Herman Kogan about the trainees in boot camp?

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