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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. Where was John Smitherman given treatment for his radiation poisoning?
(a) New York.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Japan.
(d) Washington, D.C.

2. Why did Londoners run toward parachuting soldiers?
(a) They could use the paracutes to make clothing.
(b) They wanted to assist the Allied soldiers.
(c) They wanted to confiscate their weapons.
(d) They wanted to arrest the enemy soldiers.

3. Where was Robert Rasmus when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) Fighting in Germany.
(b) Training for the invasion of Japan.
(c) Fighting in France.
(d) Fighting in the South Pacific.

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) Chicago was under attack.
(c) The air raid wardens called for blackouts.
(d) His parents were too poor to pay for electricity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What racism did Sheril Cunning experience growing up in California?

2. What is a Hiroshima Maiden?

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

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

5. What does Robert Lekachman believe was his salvation in the war?

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