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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. What did the Alsace Project study?
(a) Russian intelligence.
(b) Japanese intelligence.
(c) Italian intelligence.
(d) German intelligence.

2. According to Tommy Bridges, how were GI rapists and murderers punished?
(a) They were turned over to the enemy.
(b) They were imprisoned.
(c) They were hanged.
(d) They were shot.

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

4. How many soldiers were killed when the ammunition dump at Port Chicago blew up?
(a) Fifty-seven.
(b) Two hundred.
(c) Five hundred.
(d) Three hundred and twenty.

5. Why does Walter Rosenblum believe war photographers were privileged?
(a) They could live off base.
(b) They had a front row seat for history.
(c) They were popular.
(d) They had access to army rations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the disease of beriberi, that stops kidney function?

2. Why were the soldiers forbidden to keep diaries?

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

4. How did Frank Keegan and his high school buddies respond to the invasion of Pearl Harbor?

5. What did British boys learn in the Know Your Enemy program?

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