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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the Japanese overseers get angry if the American prisoners killed a snake?
(a) They didn't want prisoners fighting over food.
(b) They worshipped snakes.
(c) They liked to eat snake.
(d) They didn't want working prisoners poisoned.

2. What does Peter Ota tell us is worse than death in Japanese culture?
(a) Unkindness.
(b) Dishonesty.
(c) Shame.
(d) Fear.

3. How long did a recruit from another country have to be in the U.S. army to become a citizen?
(a) One hundred and eighty days.
(b) Four full years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Ninety days.

4. What did Betty Hutchinson say WWII veterans told their children about the war?
(a) Patriotic slogans.
(b) Horror stories.
(c) Funny events.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

7. What does Robert Lekachman believe was his salvation in the war?
(a) His poor eyesight kept him out of gunnery school.
(b) His physical weakness kept him out of the infantry.
(c) His skill with strategy made him an officer.
(d) His lack of ability kept him out of OCS.

8. Why did Londoners run toward parachuting soldiers?
(a) They wanted to arrest the enemy soldiers.
(b) They wanted to assist the Allied soldiers.
(c) They could use the paracutes to make clothing.
(d) They wanted to confiscate their weapons.

9. How did Ursula Bender feel about the war as a six-year-old child?
(a) It was an exciting adventure.
(b) It went by without her notice.
(c) It was a terrifying nightmare.
(d) It was a good learning experience.

10. How does Robert Rasmus feel about life's problems since the war?
(a) They're all easier to handle because of that experience.
(b) They're all minor by comparison.
(c) They're all what he was trained to face.
(d) They're all major by comparison.

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

12. Why was Peter Bezich ordered to sell his boat?
(a) He was envied by the local Filipinos.
(b) His buddies were jealous.
(c) He was suspected of trying to escape.
(d) He was getting strafed by his own men.

13. What did Ted Allenby promise the homosexual soldiers in his chaplaincy?
(a) "I will guarantee your veteran's benefits."
(b) "I will pave the way for you to stay in the military."
(c) "I will fight for your civil rights."
(d) "I will pave the way for you to get out of the military."

14. How long was the Bataan Death March?
(a) Sixty miles.
(b) Twenty miles.
(c) Two hundred miles.
(d) Forty miles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Japanese code of war, Bushido, mean?

2. What did first-generation Japanese parents mean when they taught their children, gaman?

3. How did American soldiers kill Hawaiian civilians?

4. What does Jun Kurose say that the Friends Service Committee advised Japanese internees to do?

5. How did John Ciardi feel about the dropping of the atomic bomb?

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