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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. How many atomic bombs were completely developed?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

2. What caused Dellie Hahne to begin to distrust her government?
(a) The pressure to marry a soldier.
(b) The change in status of Russia from enemy to ally.
(c) The ration system.
(d) The unkind treatment of war brides.

3. Who are the hibakisha?
(a) The bombardiers responsible for Hiroshima.
(b) Those killed at Hiroshima.
(c) Survivors of Hiroshima.
(d) The generals who ordered the bombing of Hiroshima.

4. How was Sheril Cunning's mother's war experience like the New York Stock Exchange?
(a) Neighbors bet on the outcome of battles.
(b) Neighbors bought war bonds together.
(c) Neighbors traded coupons for commodities.
(d) Neighbors gambled on commodities futures.

5. Why did the soldiers in the Philippines write home, "Cancel the bonds."
(a) They didn't believe in the war.
(b) They thought the war was over.
(c) They didn't want to support MacArthur's excesses.
(d) They didn't think bonds were a good investment.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Father George Zabelka violate military law?

3. Why didn't Maurice Wilson think the Filipinos would hide American escapees from the Japanese prison camp?

4. What was the order in which the bomb detonation reached observers?

5. Why did Peter Bezich's son go to prison?

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