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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. After the war, how did the community in Long Beach change, according to Sheril Cunning?
(a) People welcomed the returning soldiers.
(b) People pulled together to rebuild.
(c) People were tired of sacrifice and began to complain.
(d) People were proud to sacrifice.

2. What was the OWI?
(a) Outstanding War Information.
(b) Obvious War Information.
(c) Office of War Information.
(d) Official War Information.

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

4. Why was Walter Rosenblum welcomed in French farmhouses during the war?
(a) He had access to army rations.
(b) He offered protection from looters.
(c) He brought news from the front.
(d) He was an entertaining storyteller.

5. According to Joe Marcus, why are military men sympathetic to business?
(a) Military men strive to win over businessmen.
(b) Business supports the military.
(c) The military relies on business products.
(d) Military men and businessmen are the same kind of people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Joseph Levine say that Jewish children begged for after the war?

2. What did Richard Leacock say was his worst memory of WWII?

3. Why did Ray Wax think soldiers in the regular army were inferior?

4. According to Henry Hatfield, how was a German spy who claimed to be from Brooklyn revealed?

5. What is a thirteen-week wonder?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does George Oremont say was required to make money during the war?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Werner Burckhardt believe offers hope for the future of mankind?

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

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

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

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

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