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

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

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

4. 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 wanted to defeat North Korea.
(d) They didn't understand it.

5. What did most conversations among prisoners of war center around?
(a) Food.
(b) Politics.
(c) Sex.
(d) Sports.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Robert Lekachman believe happened for the last time in World War II?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Japanese code of bushido, and what difference did it make to American fighting men?

2. Why did John Ciardi feel that sports analogies confused soldiers?

3. According to Admiral Gene Larocque, what were the negative long-range effects of WWII within the United States?

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

5. How did Akira Miuri feel about Americans during the war?

6. Why were civilians unkind to wounded war veterans, according to Betty Hutchinson?

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

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

9. What did Peter Ota say was different about Japanese-American culture before the war?

10. Why does Peter Bezich feel bitter about the war?

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