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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 soldiers on troop ships understand about their destination, according to General William Buster?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Only what their mission would be upon landing.
(c) Only where they would spend the first few weeks after landing.
(d) Only where they were landing.

2. What was a Victory Garden?
(a) A garden shaped like a V for victory.
(b) A military garden.
(c) A communal flower garden.
(d) A communal vegetable garden.

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

4. What does Robert Lekachman believe was his salvation in the war?
(a) His lack of ability kept him out of OCS.
(b) His physical weakness kept him out of the infantry.
(c) His skill with strategy made him an officer.
(d) His poor eyesight kept him out of gunnery school.

5. Why were civilians saving fat during the war?
(a) To make salve.
(b) To make nitroglycerine.
(c) To make lotions.
(d) To make soap.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kept Joseph Small from being injured when the barracks in Port Chicago was demolished?

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

3. How did Ursula Bender feel about the war as a six-year-old child?

4. According to James Rowe, when do Democrats become Republicans?

5. How long did a recruit from another country have to be in the U.S. army to become a citizen?

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