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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 - 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of magazine was Horizon?
(a) A political magazine.
(b) A news journal.
(c) A literary journal.
(d) A popular periodical.

2. How did most Americans regard Pearl Harbor?
(a) As a well-executed attack.
(b) As a normal combat engagement.
(c) As an aberration.
(d) As the typical type of battle to be expected.

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that armies historically favored younger soldiers?
(a) They are physically fit.
(b) They do not question the war's irrationality.
(c) They are aggressive.
(d) They are obedient.

4. Citizens were considered subversive if they did not participate in what efforts?
(a) Recycling.
(b) Home gardening.
(c) Donating metal for munitions.
(d) Supporting the troops.

5. Why is Julian Maclaren-Ross discussed in the book?
(a) He created precision bombing doctrine.
(b) He committed many blunders.
(c) He committed almost no blunders.
(d) He denounced precision bombing doctrine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most of the efforts discussed in America and Britain were aimed at which of the following?

2. Americans believed that heavy bombers had what quality?

3. How does the author establish the common soldier's opinion of the meaning of the war?

4. What are the "Unread Books" to which Chapter 5's title alludes?

5. Which of the following is NOT one way that soldiers perceived of the war?

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