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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 - 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Soldiers in their thirties were often called what?
(a) Grizzly.
(b) Pop.
(c) Old man.
(d) Gramps.

2. Hazing occurred at what levels within the American military?
(a) At the middle levels only.
(b) At all levels.
(c) At the middle and upper levels.
(d) At the low-levels only.

3. How does the author establish the common soldier's opinion of the meaning of the war?
(a) Through personal stories.
(b) Through statistics.
(c) Through prose and verse quotations.
(d) Through anecdotes.

4. How was God related to the war in the political and media interpretation in America?
(a) God had allowed the war to happen.
(b) God wanted to war to end.
(c) God wanted the German people to be punished.
(d) God was on the allies' side.

5. The author suggests that in warfare, blunders are how common?
(a) Rare.
(b) Ubiquitous.
(c) Extremely rare.
(d) Quite common.

Short Answer Questions

1. Throughout Chapter 6, the author describes enlisted men as being which of the following?

2. What is unusual about the friendly-fire incident discussed in Chapter 2 and illustrated on page 18?

3. Why did enlisted men require an "anodyne"?

4. How long did most Americans believe the war would last?

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that most contemporaneous war histories depicted military blunders?

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