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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 many support personnel were behind each rifleman?
(a) Twenty-four.
(b) Seven.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Two.

2. How long did a recruit from another country have to be in the U.S. army to become a citizen?
(a) Ninety days.
(b) Two years.
(c) Four full years.
(d) One hundred and eighty days.

3. Why does Jack Short think the GI bill might have been detrimental in the long run?
(a) People developed false hopes for education.
(b) People could get money without working for it.
(c) People didn't get paid enough.
(d) People had false expectations for home ownership.

4. 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 unbeatable.
(d) The Japanese were a lesser species.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does film critic Pauline Kael feel about the World War II movies?

2. What was as important to Italian Americans as cars to mainstream Americans before WWII, according to Paul Pisicano?

3. What did Ted Allenby promise the homosexual soldiers in his chaplaincy?

4. Why were thirty-two American servicemen killed after hearing the announcement of Japan's surrender?

5. Why did Anton Biler join the army?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did the respondents feel about the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima?

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

6. What is the difference between the attitudes of Admiral Gene Larocque and General William Buster?

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

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

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

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

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