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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did much of the American public react to initial reports of violence, chaos and casualty figures?
(a) They were uninterested.
(b) They refused to believe them.
(c) They ignored them.
(d) They were appalled.

3. The presentation of the war by state and public media is best described as which of the following?
(a) Realistic.
(b) Sanitized.
(c) Aggrandizing.
(d) Gruesome.

4. American's believed that what typically American resource would allow them to win the war?
(a) Individualism.
(b) Improvisation.
(c) Industry.
(d) Know-how.

5. Most proponents of precision bombing suggested that it be used to destroy what enemy targets?
(a) Fortifications.
(b) Ground troops.
(c) Civilian populations.
(d) Industry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Even with advanced bombsights, bombs would routinely land how far away from their targets?

3. What types of bombers were believed to be key to the war-effort?

4. Americans believed that heavy bombers had what quality?

5. The author suggests that before the outbreak of war, the American military was prepared for what type of performance?

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