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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Ursula Bender feel about the war as a six-year-old child?

3. Why did Mike Royko spent nights in a pitch-black apartment as a child during the war?

4. Why does Jack Short think the GI bill might have been detrimental in the long run?

5. Which city suffered the highest death toll from American bombing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Peter Bezich feel bitter about the war?

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

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

6. How did Betty Hutchinson's feelings about war change over time?

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

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

9. How did the war affect college-aged men?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Officers often kept the troops in ignorance of their destinations, missions and purposes. Give your opinion as to why this was so, and the result of programmed ignorance on the troops and on the outcome of their efforts.

Essay Topic 2

Is obedience a virtue, an immoral act, or both? Discuss examples of those who obeyed questionable orders, their reasons for doing so, and the results. Give your opinion about the importance, necessity or negative results of unquestioning obedience.

Essay Topic 3

The author ends the accounts with conversations with children about the long-term effects of the bomb on the children's views about the world and the future. In your paper, discuss the difference the existence of the bomb has made in young people's attitudes about life.

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