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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What surprised Anton Biler about his Japanese overseer in the prison camp?
(a) He spoke English.
(b) He was from Seattle.
(c) He was kind.
(d) He was against the war.

4. What did Jean Wood say happened to British morals during the war?
(a) They improved.
(b) They disintegrated.
(c) They disappeared.
(d) They were compromised.

5. What did the Japanese code of war, Bushido, mean?
(a) No surrender.
(b) Do your best.
(c) Be all you can be.
(d) In it to win it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under the Geneva Convention, what type of work did prisoners of war not have to do?

2. What did soldiers on troop ships understand about their destination, according to General William Buster?

3. How did Robert Rasmus feel about escaping the Battle of the Bulge because of the flu?

4. Why did the Germans want to keep the American prisoners of war out of Allied hands?

5. Why did Londoners run toward parachuting soldiers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the troops not allowed to keep diaries of their experiences and what effect did that prohibition have?

2. How were the American prisoners of war treated by the German guards?

3. What stereotypes developed in young people's thinking during the war?

4. How does Urusula Bender say the war was different for children?

5. Why did E.B. Sledge believe American soldiers in the Pacific had lost all sense of decency?

6. How did Bill Bailey run afoul of the law?

7. According to Paul Pisicano, how was WWII different for Italian Americans?

8. How does Sarah Killingsworth feel now about the war?

9. How did John Kenneth Galbraith feel about Allied bombing?

10. How did Betty Hutchinson's feelings about war change over time?

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