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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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."

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

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

4. How did John Ciardi feel about the dropping of the atomic bomb?
(a) He had won the lottery.
(b) He had no further reason to live.
(c) He had regained faith in his country.
(d) He had lost the lottery.

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

6. Where was Robert Rasmus when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) Fighting in France.
(b) Training for the invasion of Japan.
(c) Fighting in the South Pacific.
(d) Fighting in Germany.

7. Why were civilians saving fat during the war?
(a) To make lotions.
(b) To make soap.
(c) To make salve.
(d) To make nitroglycerine.

8. What changes does Admiral Larocque believe WWII caused in American national consciousness?
(a) Planning for war was unavoidable.
(b) Planning for war became permanently institutionalized.
(c) Planning for war was forever to be avoided.
(d) Planning for war was a religious act.

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

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

11. What is a PAF?
(a) A publicly aware fascist.
(b) A political anti-fascist.
(c) A public anti-fascist.
(d) A premature anti-fascist - fighting fascism before the U.S. did.

12. 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) He looks at the yearbooks from time to time.
(d) The war made everything more memorable.

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

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

15. What does the classification 4E mean to a soldier?
(a) Potential Communist.
(b) Unfit for active duty.
(c) Premature anti-Fascist.
(d) Conscientious objector.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did MacArthur land twice when returning to the Philippines?

2. Why did the soldiers in the Philippines write home, "Cancel the bonds."

3. What was John Abbott's sentence for refusing the draft?

4. What did most conversations among prisoners of war center around?

5. What does Dellie Hahne say was the duty of young women during the war?

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