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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most hazing would best be described as what?
(a) Creative.
(b) Doctrinal.
(c) Tedious.
(d) Dangerous.

2. What belief about the Japanese caused Americans to think that their war with Japan would end quickly?
(a) They were a backwards people.
(b) They lacked discipline.
(c) They had no heavy weapons or large ships.
(d) They were inefficient soldiers.

3. How were military blunders usually treated in official reports?
(a) They were meticulously analyzed.
(b) They were omitted or distorted.
(c) They were censored.
(d) They were filed confidentially.

4. What factor does the author cite as being the most important in causing one force to misidentify another?
(a) Differing service branches.
(b) The use of camouflage.
(c) Differing nationalities.
(d) The use of new battalion insignia.

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

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. Japanese troops were typically stereotyped as being what?

3. At the beginning of World War II, aerial combat was regarded as exemplifying what obsolescent ideal?

4. The author states that most of the weapons issued to American armed forces suffered from what problems?

5. How common was the use of alcohol as an anodyne?

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