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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. Why was Peggy Terry happy during the war?

2. What did Paul Pisicano believe Italian Americans felt about the Axis countries in World War II?

3. Who attacked Mexican youth in Los Angeles during the Zoot Suit riots?

4. Why did Peter Bezich's son go to prison?

5. What did the Japanese code of war, Bushido, mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the difference between the fate of Russian prisoners of war and American and British POWs?

2. Why were the troops not allowed to keep diaries of their experiences and what effect did that prohibition have?

3. What did the respondents feel about the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima?

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

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

6. How did Dellie Hahne see women's role in the war effort?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The war looked very different to children than it did to adults. Discuss the differences, citing examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

In your essay, discuss the unifying elements that brought Germans and Americans, Japanese and Americans, and other groups together both during and after the war. What factors made these reconciliations possible?

Essay Topic 3

The status of women during World War II changed dramatically in a variety of ways, according to the respondents in the text. In your essay, discuss the changes that took place, their causes and after-war effects.

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