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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 kept Herman Kogan from being afraid during the assaults on Sugarloaf Hill?
(a) He was too tired to be afraid.
(b) He was too intent on getting the story to be afraid.
(c) He was in no danger.
(d) He was unaware of the danger.

2. How does film critic Pauline Kael feel about the World War II movies?
(a) They were a great support to the public.
(b) They were harshly realistic.
(c) They were propaganda.
(d) They were beautiful.

3. What did John Baker know if he heard an up-and-down howling siren as a child?
(a) An air attack was over.
(b) A ground attack was imminent.
(c) A ground attack was over.
(d) An air attack was in progress.

4. What percentage of the marines in the Guadalcanal campaign were under twenty-one years of age?
(a) Eighty percent.
(b) One hundred percent.
(c) Twenty percent.
(d) Fifty percent.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Admiral Larocque think of the Japanese during the war?

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

4. According to Tommy Bridges, why were whites from Georgia more comfortable with black workers than whites from the north were?

5. How does Robert Rasmus feel about life's problems since the war?

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