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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the German soldiers want from the captured Americans that the Americans destroyed?
(a) Their .45 pistols.
(b) Their ammunition.
(c) Their mortars.
(d) Their machine guns.

3. What right for ex-felons did John Abbott win in the Supreme Court?
(a) The right to work for federal agencies.
(b) The right to gather in meetings.
(c) The right to marry.
(d) The right to vote.

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

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

6. Why did Robert Rasmus believe fighting the Russians would fail?
(a) The Russian generals were better strategists.
(b) The Russians were better fighters.
(c) The Russians were willing to sacrifice millions of troops.
(d) The Russians were better equipped.

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

8. Why did the girls in Panama avoid the officers from the battleship Arkansas?
(a) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers were married.
(b) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers had gonorrhea.
(c) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers were prisoners.
(d) The enlisted sailors took all the girls.

9. What is a dogfight?
(a) Two airplanes firing at each other.
(b) Hand-to-hand combat.
(c) Bombing.
(d) Infantry warfare.

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

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

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

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

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

15. Why did the soldiers in the Philippines write home, "Cancel the bonds."
(a) They didn't believe in the war.
(b) They thought the war was over.
(c) They didn't want to support MacArthur's excesses.
(d) They didn't think bonds were a good investment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robert Lekachman believe was his salvation in the war?

2. Where does Richard Prendergast say the lower-ranked person walked with an officer?

3. What did Maurice Wilson think when he saw the Japanese war planes over Hawaii?

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

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

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