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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 was Peter Bezich ordered to sell his boat?
(a) He was suspected of trying to escape.
(b) He was getting strafed by his own men.
(c) He was envied by the local Filipinos.
(d) His buddies were jealous.

2. What does Dellie Hahne say was the duty of young women during the war?
(a) To plant victory gardens.
(b) To dance with soldiers at the USO.
(c) To recycle and conserve energy.
(d) To sew bandages.

3. What does Paul Pisicano believe binds American suburbians?
(a) Anti-Jewish sentiment.
(b) Anti-German sentiment.
(c) Anti-Italian sentiment.
(d) Anti-black sentiment.

4. What worried Peggy Terry when the tetryl she was working with turned her hair orange?
(a) The toxic ingredients might make her sterile.
(b) Other women would think she had dyed her hair.
(c) The toxic ingredients might make her sick.
(d) The toxic fumes might kill her.

5. Why didn't Maurice Wilson think the Filipinos would hide American escapees from the Japanese prison camp?
(a) The Filipinos would turn them in for the reward.
(b) The Filipinos were enemies as well.
(c) The Filipinos were afraid of the Japanese.
(d) The Filipinos hated the Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dellie Hahne believe military wives were regarded?

2. How long did a recruit from another country have to be in the U.S. army to become a citizen?

3. Why didn't the American prisoners of war in Germany try to escape?

4. How does General William Buster feel about the Vietnam War?

5. What did Maurice Wilson think when he saw the Japanese war planes over Hawaii?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How was Peggy Terry's health compromised by her efforts in the war?

6. What does Anton Bilek believe cost heavy loss of American lives in the Philippines?

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

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

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

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

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