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

2. What does Erich Luth say the German nation lacks?
(a) Communal courage.
(b) Military courage.
(c) Civil courage.
(d) Personal courage.

3. When did German teenagers in the Luftwaffe study for the flak brigade?
(a) From 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
(b) From 2:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
(c) From 11:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
(d) From 2:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

4. What impressed Herman Kogan about the trainees in boot camp?
(a) Their selflessness.
(b) Their philosophy of war.
(c) Their courage.
(d) Their patriotism.

5. What did Jean Wood say happened to British morals during the war?
(a) They improved.
(b) They disappeared.
(c) They disintegrated.
(d) They were compromised.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a Victory Garden?

2. Why did Erich Luth refuse to fire his gun in the German army?

3. What did the Japanese code of war, Bushido, mean?

4. Why were thirty-two American servicemen killed after hearing the announcement of Japan's surrender?

5. What did Jean Wood say was the result of deprivation during the war?

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