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

2. What was John Abbott's sentence for refusing the draft?
(a) Two years in federal prison.
(b) Community service on an Indian reservation.
(c) Death by firing squad.
(d) Six months in jail.

3. What two ethnic groups does Charlie Miller believe have a "natural hatred" for each other?
(a) Russians and Americans.
(b) Americans and Japanese.
(c) Russians and Germans.
(d) Germans and Japanese.

4. According to Tommy Bridges, how were GI rapists and murderers punished?
(a) They were imprisoned.
(b) They were shot.
(c) They were hanged.
(d) They were turned over to the enemy.

5. Why did American prisoners of war like to trade Red Cross packages with Indian prisoners of war?
(a) The Indians did not smoke or eat meat, so traded those items.
(b) The Indians had fresh produce.
(c) The Indians liked blood sausage.
(d) The Indians liked American jerky and cookies.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did thieves among army personnel fool the MPs?

2. What causes the disease of beriberi, that stops kidney function?

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

4. How did Frank Keegan respond to the bombing of Hiroshima?

5. What battle does Philip Morrison contributed most to the Japanese defeat?

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