View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Richard Prendergast say the lower-ranked person walked with an officer?
(a) Behind.
(b) On the right.
(c) In front.
(d) On the left.

2. 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.

3. How did Robert Rasmus feel looking at the faces of the German dead?
(a) They were boys like him.
(b) They were brutish and cruel.
(c) They were an abstraction, not human beings.
(d) They didn't seem real.

4. What did people in Paducah burn in a bonfire?
(a) Emperor Hirohito's effigy.
(b) All their Japanese products.
(c) Posters of Hitler.
(d) All their German products.

5. Who attacked Mexican youth in Los Angeles during the Zoot Suit riots?
(a) Football players.
(b) High school boys.
(c) Servicemen.
(d) Policemen.

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

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

8. What did Paul Pisicano believe Italian Americans felt about the Axis countries in World War II?
(a) Italian Americans wanted to fight on Italian soil.
(b) Italian Americans were ashamed of Mussolini.
(c) Italian Americans were against Hitler and the Japanese, but not the Italians.
(d) Italian Americans were neutral about the war.

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

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

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

12. How did American soldiers kill Hawaiian civilians?
(a) Firing short-range weapons at Japanese airplanes.
(b) Confusing them with Japanese army personnel.
(c) Dropping bombs on Honolulu.
(d) Believing they were Japanese spies.

13. Why was John Garcia brought before a navy court?
(a) He was accused of aiding the enemy.
(b) He lied about his age to enlist.
(c) He was firing unauthorized ammunition.
(d) He refused to go into a burning ship.

14. Why does Robert Rasmus say he could remember people he knew for a short time many years ago?
(a) His short-term memory is weaker.
(b) They kept in touch over the years.
(c) The war made everything more memorable.
(d) He looks at the yearbooks from time to time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does General William Buster feel about the Vietnam War?

2. What did Robert Rasmus think when he saw the ambulances arriving on the morning his group was attacking?

3. Why didn't the American prisoners of war in Germany try to escape?

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

5. What changes does Admiral Larocque believe WWII caused in American national consciousness?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 623 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample