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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 right for ex-felons did John Abbott win in the Supreme Court?
(a) The right to work for federal agencies.
(b) The right to marry.
(c) The right to gather in meetings.
(d) The right to vote.

2. Why did Robert Rasmus believe fighting the Russians would fail?
(a) The Russians were better fighters.
(b) The Russian generals were better strategists.
(c) The Russians were willing to sacrifice millions of troops.
(d) The Russians were better equipped.

3. How did Robert Rasmus feel looking at the faces of the German dead?
(a) They were brutish and cruel.
(b) They were an abstraction, not human beings.
(c) They didn't seem real.
(d) They were boys like him.

4. What does the classification 4E mean to a soldier?
(a) Conscientious objector.
(b) Unfit for active duty.
(c) Potential Communist.
(d) Premature anti-Fascist.

5. What did Maurice Wilson think when he saw the Japanese war planes over Hawaii?
(a) "Look what pretty planes we got."
(b) "Today might be my last on earth."
(c) "Makes you proud to be an American."
(d) "Here comes trouble."

Short Answer Questions

1. What unusual food did Ken Hourigan eat in the Philippines?

2. Why were American soldiers anxious to get points for earning medals?

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

4. How did John Kenneth Galbraith say the bombing of Hamburg increased the German war effort?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the difference between the fate of Russian prisoners of war and American and British POWs?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Robert Lekachman and E.B. Sledge feel about their efforts in the war?

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