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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby, Remembrance of Things Past, and Epilogue: Boom Babies and Other New People.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the girls in Panama avoid the officers from the battleship Arkansas?
(a) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers had gonorrhea.
(b) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers were married.
(c) The enlisted sailors took all the girls.
(d) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers were prisoners.

2. Why were people in San Francisco panicked after Pearl Harbor, according to Dennis Keegan?
(a) They believed the Germans would attack them next.
(b) They believed the government would draft all young men.
(c) They believed the Japanese would attack them next.
(d) They believed Japanese spies had infiltrated the city.

3. What did American soldiers do on the streets of Japan that was considered bad manners?
(a) Drink alcohol.
(b) Chew gum.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Flirt with women.

4. What did the Japanese code of war, Bushido, mean?
(a) Do your best.
(b) In it to win it.
(c) No surrender.
(d) Be all you can be.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As soon as Japan surrendered, what did American soldiers do in Japan, according to Akira Miuri?

2. What does Gloria Gleason say bothered people most about the war?

3. Who did Jacques Raboud say were the most likely to survive prison camps?

4. Why does Richard Prendergast say the pillboxes were of no use to the infantrymen?

5. What did John Baker know if he heard an up-and-down howling siren as a child?

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