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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a PAF?
(a) A premature anti-fascist - fighting fascism before the U.S. did.
(b) A political anti-fascist.
(c) A public anti-fascist.
(d) A publicly aware fascist.

2. Why were the soldiers forbidden to keep diaries?
(a) Families should be protected from sad information.
(b) There would be no time to sit and write.
(c) Diaries found by the enemy could give information.
(d) They were instructed to forget the tragedies they saw.

3. As soon as Japan surrendered, what did American soldiers do in Japan, according to Akira Miuri?
(a) Pillaged and looted villages.
(b) Drank and partied in the streets.
(c) Destroyed homes unnecessarily.
(d) Distributed food and began rebuilding.

4. How did the people of Pasadena react to the sight of wounded veterans?
(a) With gifts and offers of help.
(b) With parades in their honor.
(c) With visits to the VA hospitals.
(d) With requests to keep them off the streets.

5. Which city suffered the highest death toll from American bombing?
(a) Tokyo.
(b) Hiroshima.
(c) Dresden.
(d) Nagasaki.

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

7. 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 beautiful.
(c) They were harshly realistic.
(d) They were propaganda.

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. How does General William Buster feel about the Vietnam War?
(a) He thinks it was heroic.
(b) He thinks it was useless.
(c) He thinks it was necessary.
(d) He thinks it was unnecessary.

13. Why does Richard Prendergast say the pillboxes were of no use to the infantrymen?
(a) The soldiers had to keep marching past them.
(b) They faced the wrong way.
(c) They had all been blasted to pieces.
(d) They were hiding places for German infantrymen.

14. What did most conversations among prisoners of war center around?
(a) Sex.
(b) Politics.
(c) Sports.
(d) Food.

15. Why was Peggy Terry happy during the war?
(a) For the first time, she had enough money.
(b) She enjoyed the sense of camaraderie.
(c) Shewanted to help defeat Hitler.
(d) She loved her job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Peter Bezich ordered to sell his boat?

2. Why did Mike Royko spent nights in a pitch-black apartment as a child during the war?

3. Which college students were drafted earliest, according to Akira Miuri?

4. Where was Robert Rasmus when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?

5. Why didn't Maurice Wilson think the Filipinos would hide American escapees from the Japanese prison camp?

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