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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Allegedly, agents working for the axis spread what rumor?
(a) German soldiers ate metal shavings with their food.
(b) The Oder river had never been crossed by an invading force.
(c) Soldiers' wives were unfaithful.
(d) French women all bore venereal diseases.

2. Which of the following qualities of warfare does the author NOT suggest to be a contributing factor in military blunders?
(a) Ruthlessness.
(b) Chaos.
(c) Vastness.
(d) Fluidity.

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that most contemporaneous war histories depicted military blunders?
(a) Rare.
(b) Costly.
(c) Benign.
(d) Funny.

4. According to the author, before the outbreak of war, what did Americans expect their military performance to be like?
(a) A defensive struggle.
(b) A short series of easy victories.
(c) An unbroken series of hard-fought victories.
(d) A good record, mostly of victories.

5. According to one rumor, what substance was added to food served to servicemen?
(a) Petrol.
(b) Wax.
(c) Sulfur.
(d) Saltpeter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the author not list as a cause of the increasing lack of individuality with which solders were treated?

2. How old were the youngest soldiers fielded by the axis during the war?

3. According to the author, what was the last war in which soldiers were at least theoretically thought of as unique individuals with distinct identities?

4. What was the name of the technologically advanced bombsight used by American bombers?

5. According to one rumor, female axis agents were sent to the allies with what?

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