The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What unusual food did Maurice Wilson eat in the Philippines?
(a) Horses.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Mice.
(d) Cats.

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

3. How does Dellie Hahne believe military wives were regarded?
(a) Military wives were physically abused.
(b) Military wives were overprotected.
(c) Military wives were looked down upon.
(d) Military wives were venerated.

4. Why didn't the American prisoners of war in Germany try to escape?
(a) They were shackled.
(b) They were watched every minute.
(c) They were afraid they'd be shot.
(d) There was nowhere to go.

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

6. What did Jean Wood say was the result of deprivation during the war?
(a) People became discouraged.
(b) People became demoralized.
(c) People became inventive.
(d) People became selfish.

7. What did the Japanese code of war, Bushido, mean?
(a) Do your best.
(b) In it to win it.
(c) Be all you can be.
(d) No surrender.

8. What did Sarah Killingsworth believe the war offered to her and her family?
(a) Education.
(b) Training.
(c) A path for acceptance in the white world.
(d) Jobs that paid well.

9. What does the classification 4E mean to a soldier?
(a) Conscientious objector.
(b) Unfit for active duty.
(c) Potential Communist.
(d) Premature anti-Fascist.

10. What does Paul Pisicano believe binds American suburbians?
(a) Anti-German sentiment.
(b) Anti-black sentiment.
(c) Anti-Jewish sentiment.
(d) Anti-Italian sentiment.

11. Why were thirty-two American servicemen killed after hearing the announcement of Japan's surrender?
(a) Stray bullets from the celebration.
(b) Retaliation from the Hawaiian Japanese.
(c) Executions for war crimes.
(d) Collisions caused by drunk driving.

12. Where does Richard Prendergast say the biggest infantrymen are placed?
(a) In the rear with machine guns.
(b) On the front line carrying rifles.
(c) Behind the rifles carrying mortars.
(d) In the tanks.

13. Why were American soldiers anxious to get points for earning medals?
(a) Soldiers wanted to impress their girlfriends.
(b) Soldiers were shipped home in order of accumulated points.
(c) Soldiers wanted to impress their officers.
(d) Soldiers wanted to look good to their buddies.

14. Why were people in San Francisco panicked after Pearl Harbor, according to Dennis Keegan?
(a) They believed the government would draft all young men.
(b) They believed Japanese spies had infiltrated the city.
(c) They believed the Germans would attack them next.
(d) They believed the Japanese would attack them next.

15. What does Lekachman believe World War II veterans feel about their war experiences?
(a) They were fortunate then.
(b) They were foolish and frightened then.
(c) They were better and more important then.
(d) They were gullible and deceived then.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was the Bataan Death March?

2. How did Robert Rasmus feel looking at the faces of the German dead?

3. How does film critic Pauline Kael feel about the World War II movies?

4. What is a PAF?

5. What caused Dellie Hahne to begin to distrust her government?

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