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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 the Japanese people feel about the Japanese war veterans?
(a) Resentful.
(b) Grateful.
(c) Worshipful.
(d) Mistrustful.

2. Why did American prisoners of war like to trade Red Cross packages with Indian prisoners of war?
(a) The Indians liked blood sausage.
(b) The Indians did not smoke or eat meat, so traded those items.
(c) The Indians liked American jerky and cookies.
(d) The Indians had fresh produce.

3. How did Galatea Berger remember soldiers smelled in Germany?
(a) Soldiers smelled like alcohol and tobacco.
(b) Soldiers smelled like cigarettes, gum, and chocolates.
(c) Soldiers smelled like gunpowder.
(d) Soldiers smelled unwashed and unpleasant.

4. What was a Victory Garden?
(a) A communal flower garden.
(b) A communal vegetable garden.
(c) A military garden.
(d) A garden shaped like a V for victory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a victory girl?

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

3. According to Bill Mauldin, what did Russia waste after the war?

4. According to Ray Wax, which country produced the toughest soldiers?

5. Why should John Houseman not have been allowed to broadcast on the Voice of America?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ray Wax feel about his participation in the war?

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

3. How does Bill Mauldin believe most infantrymen thought the war should be settled?

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

5. According to Tommy Corcoran, what was Joseph Kennedy's strategy for the war?

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

7. What happened to the city children from London who were shipped to safer areas in the country during the war, according to John Baker?

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

9. How did Galatea Berger say the Third Reich was recorded in her school history classes?

10. According to Lowell Steward, what was the status of the black Tuskegee flying squadron?

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