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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 did Ted Allenby promise the homosexual soldiers in his chaplaincy?
(a) "I will fight for your civil rights."
(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 pave the way for you to stay in the military."

2. What did the German soldiers want from the captured Americans that the Americans destroyed?
(a) Their ammunition.
(b) Their mortars.
(c) Their machine guns.
(d) Their .45 pistols.

3. What changes does Admiral Larocque believe WWII caused in American national consciousness?
(a) Planning for war was forever to be avoided.
(b) Planning for war was unavoidable.
(c) Planning for war was a religious act.
(d) Planning for war became permanently institutionalized.

4. Why did the girls in Panama avoid the officers from the battleship Arkansas?
(a) The enlisted sailors took all the girls.
(b) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers were married.
(c) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers had gonorrhea.
(d) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers were prisoners.

5. Why did Peter Bezich's son go to prison?
(a) He joined the Communist party.
(b) He refused to be drafted.
(c) He tried to assassinate the president.
(d) He burned the flag.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mike Royko believe most U.S. soldiers felt about the Korean conflict?

2. What did most conversations among prisoners of war center around?

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

4. What worried Peggy Terry when the tetryl she was working with turned her hair orange?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Urusula Bender say the war was different for children?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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