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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) Only where they would spend the first few weeks after landing.
(b) Only where they were landing.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Only what their mission would be upon landing.

2. What is the difference between an Anderson shelter and a Morrison shelter?
(a) The Anderson shelter was provisioned with food.
(b) The Morrison shelter was indoors; the Anderson shelter was outdoors.
(c) The Anderson shelter was outdoors; the Morrison shelter was in the living room.
(d) The Anderson shelter held twice as many people as a Morrison shelter.

3. Why did Robert Rasmus believe fighting the Russians would fail?
(a) The Russians were better fighters.
(b) The Russian generals were better strategists.
(c) The Russians were better equipped.
(d) The Russians were willing to sacrifice millions of troops.

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

5. What did the German soldiers want from the captured Americans that the Americans destroyed?
(a) Their machine guns.
(b) Their mortars.
(c) Their .45 pistols.
(d) Their ammunition.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why should John Houseman not have been allowed to broadcast on the Voice of America?

3. What is a thirteen-week wonder?

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

5. What worried Peggy Terry when the tetryl she was working with turned her hair orange?

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