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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 does Olga Norwak characterize wartime romance?
(a) It moved more slowly.
(b) It was suspended until after the war.
(c) It moved faster.
(d) It was riskier.

2. According to Tommy Bridges, why were whites from Georgia more comfortable with black workers than whites from the north were?
(a) The whites from Georgia were integrated.
(b) The whites from Georgia didn't believe in color barriers.
(c) The whites from Georgia had no prejudice.
(d) The whites from Georgia had played with blacks as children.

3. According to James Rowe, why should government rationing not have been employed?
(a) Market forces would have stabilized supply and demand.
(b) Shortages might not have occured.
(c) People were willing to go without.
(d) Shortages would have created less antagonism.

4. What were the two big top secret projects?
(a) The Antarctic Project and the Los Alamos Project.
(b) The China Project and the Brooklyn Project.
(c) The Manhattan Project and the Arctic Circle Project.
(d) The D-Day Project and the V-J Day Project.

5. Why was Joseph Small tried for mutiny?
(a) He started the explosion at Port Chicago.
(b) He persuaded other men to refuse to work.
(c) He refused to return to duty after the explosion at Port Chicago.
(d) He started a riot at Port Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kept Herman Kogan from being afraid during the assaults on Sugarloaf Hill?

2. Why was Walter Rosenblum welcomed in French farmhouses during the war?

3. How was Sheril Cunning's mother's war experience like the New York Stock Exchange?

4. Why were the Japanese pleased when American officers chose their homes to occupy?

5. What did British boys learn in the Know Your Enemy program?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to John Houseman, why was it important for the Office of War Information to broadcast defeats as well as victories?

2. Why does Jacques Raboud believe it will be difficult for his generation to erase hatred?

3. According to Yasuko Dower, what was different about American customs that she observed when the country was occupied by U.S. troops?

4. What does Gobeler think that sailors all over the world have in common?

5. Why did the FBI suspect the cartoonist, Milton Caniff?

6. What does Hans Gobeler believe is the greatest danger to the future of the world?

7. According to John Kenneth Galbraith, what was ironic about the consumption of consumer goods during the war?

8. How did Lowell Steward say the war affected the status of blacks in the United States?

9. According to Colonel Gleed, how did the study made by the War Department in 1925 affect the black community?

10. What do Elsie Rossio and Georgia Gleason agree about when discussing the war?

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