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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 Frank Keegan and his high school buddies respond to the invasion of Pearl Harbor?
(a) Waited with guns on the beach.
(b) Built bomb shelters.
(c) Waited to be drafted.
(d) Enlisted in the army.

2. Which city suffered the highest death toll from American bombing?
(a) Dresden.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Nagasaki.
(d) Hiroshima.

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

4. How does General William Buster feel about the Vietnam War?
(a) He thinks it was heroic.
(b) He thinks it was unnecessary.
(c) He thinks it was necessary.
(d) He thinks it was useless.

5. What did Robert Rasmus think when he saw the ambulances arriving on the morning his group was attacking?
(a) That they would have immediate backup.
(b) That it was inevitable that bad things were about to happen.
(c) That they were all in it together.
(d) That modern medicine was a blessing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Robert Rasmus feel about life's problems since the war?

2. What does Paul Pisicano believe binds American suburbians?

3. What did first-generation Japanese parents mean when they taught their children, gaman?

4. What did Jean Wood say happened to British morals during the war?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Dellie Hahne see women's role in the war effort?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did the war affect college-aged men?

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

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