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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was as important to Italian Americans as cars to mainstream Americans before WWII, according to Paul Pisicano?
(a) Art.
(b) Opera.
(c) Cuisine.
(d) Fashion.

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

3. What does Jun Kurose say that the Friends Service Committee advised Japanese internees to do?
(a) Go willingly to the camps.
(b) Arm themselves for self-defense.
(c) Find attorneys to plead their cause.
(d) Refuse to leave their homes.

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

5. Why did MacArthur land twice when returning to the Philippines?
(a) For the movie cameras.
(b) He didn't feel well and went back to the ship.
(c) He forgot his hat.
(d) He wanted to be sure everyone saw the landing.

6. Why did the Germans want to keep the American prisoners of war out of Allied hands?
(a) They were afraid of what the prisoners would do in retaliation.
(b) The prisoners were their only bargaining point.
(c) They were remorseful about their mistreatment.
(d) They expected the war to go on.

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

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

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

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

11. What was each soldier's ration of cigarettes?
(a) A carton a week.
(b) A carton a day.
(c) A pack a day.
(d) A pack a week.

12. Why did Mike Royko spent nights in a pitch-black apartment as a child during the war?
(a) The government cut off electricity.
(b) Chicago was under attack.
(c) His parents were too poor to pay for electricity.
(d) The air raid wardens called for blackouts.

13. What does Robert Lekachman believe happened for the last time in World War II?
(a) Americans hated another nation.
(b) Americans helped other nations.
(c) Americans saw themselves as good.
(d) Americans were patriotic.

14. What did E.B. Sledge say the war did to American soldiers?
(a) Turned them into idiots.
(b) Turned them into cowards.
(c) Turned them into patriots.
(d) Turned them into savages.

15. Why did Peter Bezich's son go to prison?
(a) He burned the flag.
(b) He tried to assassinate the president.
(c) He joined the Communist party.
(d) He refused to be drafted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sarah Killingsworth believe the war offered to her and her family?

2. What black market item was in demand among Russian troops in Vienna in 1945?

3. How did Frank Keegan and his high school buddies respond to the invasion of Pearl Harbor?

4. Why did Londoners run toward parachuting soldiers?

5. What does the classification 4E mean to a soldier?

(see the answer keys)

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