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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. Why were American soldiers anxious to get points for earning medals?
(a) Soldiers wanted to impress their girlfriends.
(b) Soldiers were shipped home in order of accumulated points.
(c) Soldiers wanted to impress their officers.
(d) Soldiers wanted to look good to their buddies.

2. Why does Richard Prendergast say the pillboxes were of no use to the infantrymen?
(a) They faced the wrong way.
(b) They were hiding places for German infantrymen.
(c) They had all been blasted to pieces.
(d) The soldiers had to keep marching past them.

3. What did Ted Allenby promise the homosexual soldiers in his chaplaincy?
(a) "I will pave the way for you to stay in the military."
(b) "I will pave the way for you to get out of the military."
(c) "I will guarantee your veteran's benefits."
(d) "I will fight for your civil rights."

4. What did first-generation Japanese parents mean when they taught their children, gaman?
(a) Understand.
(b) Enjoy.
(c) Learn.
(d) Perservere.

5. What did Paul Pisicano believe Italian Americans felt about the Axis countries in World War II?
(a) Italian Americans were ashamed of Mussolini.
(b) Italian Americans were neutral about the war.
(c) Italian Americans wanted to fight on Italian soil.
(d) Italian Americans were against Hitler and the Japanese, but not the Italians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were people in San Francisco panicked after Pearl Harbor, according to Dennis Keegan?

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

3. What right for ex-felons did John Abbott win in the Supreme Court?

4. What was each soldier's ration of cigarettes?

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

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 does Sarah Killingsworth feel now about the war?

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

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

5. What are some instances of Americans killing each other by accident, foolishness or carelessness?

6. What happened to the Allied prisoners of war in Germany after the war?

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

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

9. How did Pauline Kael feel about the movies during World War II?

10. What are some things that the young men in the war experienced for the first time?

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