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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Compared with the enlisted men, officers would best be described as which of the following?
(a) Entitled.
(b) Aggressive.
(c) Cowardly.
(d) Intelligent.

2. Talismans were believed to perform what function?
(a) Protect the soldier in combat.
(b) Give the soldier physical strength.
(c) Allow the soldier to recover from wounds.
(d) Bring the soldier luck.

3. In the iconic pre-war image discussed in Chapter 1, what are the soldiers towing?
(a) Ammunition and supplies.
(b) A destroyed enemy vehicle.
(c) Heavy artillery.
(d) A light field-piece.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The airman discussed in one example of military blunders, and who was killed by English soldiers, belonged to what allied nation?

2. Copies of the New Testament were frequently altered in what way?

3. How did most Americans regard Pearl Harbor?

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

5. Which of the following is not a concept that the iconic pre-war image in Chapter 1 is said to convey?

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