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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused Dellie Hahne to begin to distrust her government?
(a) The pressure to marry a soldier.
(b) The ration system.
(c) The unkind treatment of war brides.
(d) The change in status of Russia from enemy to ally.

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

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

4. How did Frank Keegan and his high school buddies respond to the invasion of Pearl Harbor?
(a) Waited with guns on the beach.
(b) Enlisted in the army.
(c) Waited to be drafted.
(d) Built bomb shelters.

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

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

7. What did Admiral Larocque think of the Japanese during the war?
(a) The Japanese were wily and clever.
(b) The Japanese were a superior race.
(c) The Japanese were a lesser species.
(d) The Japanese were unbeatable.

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

9. Which college students were drafted earliest, according to Akira Miuri?
(a) Humanities majors.
(b) Science majors.
(c) Music majors.
(d) Math majors.

10. How does Mike Royko believe most U.S. soldiers felt about the Korean conflict?
(a) They were glad to have their chance to fight.
(b) They wanted to defend South Korea.
(c) They didn't understand it.
(d) They wanted to defeat North Korea.

11. 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."

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What unusual food did Ken Hourigan eat in the Philippines?

2. What does John Ciardi believe could make anyone savage?

3. What did Jean Wood say happened to British morals during the war?

4. Who attacked Mexican youth in Los Angeles during the Zoot Suit riots?

5. How did Frank Keegan respond to the bombing of Hiroshima?

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