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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old were the youngest soldiers fielded by the axis during the war?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Seventeen.

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

3. According to the author, what was the unstated purpose of the use of inveterate profanity?
(a) To demean enlisted men.
(b) To set officers apart since only they could use it.
(c) To differentiate officers and enlisted men.
(d) To create camaraderie between officers and enlisted men.

4. Soldiers were often not given what type of information?
(a) Their division.
(b) Their Captain's name.
(c) Their location.
(d) Their orders.

5. How long did most Americans believe the war would last?
(a) Six months.
(b) Three years.
(c) A few months.
(d) A year.

6. What is unusual about the friendly-fire incident discussed in Chapter 2 and illustrated on page 18?
(a) No one was hurt.
(b) It was covered up.
(c) It is still denied by military officials to this day.
(d) The bombs were all duds.

7. What conditions caused servicemen to set aside the preoccupation with women as objects of sexualized desire?
(a) Extended foreign deployments.
(b) Combat.
(c) Movement to the front.
(d) Deployment.

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

9. According to a common stereotype, Chinese troops were consider to be what?
(a) Crack shots.
(b) Dependable.
(c) Ferocious.
(d) Cowardly.

10. According to the author, the hazing of enlisted men by officers would best be described as which of the following?
(a) Rare.
(b) Official policy.
(c) Pervasive.
(d) Uncommon.

11. Rumors about the axis frequently dealt with what subject?
(a) Their superior weaponry.
(b) Their combat prowess.
(c) Their tenacity.
(d) Their atrocities.

12. The author states that most of the weapons issued to American armed forces suffered from what problems?
(a) They were poorly made.
(b) They were too expensive.
(c) They were issued in insufficient numbers.
(d) They were obsolete.

13. A blunder that causes one force to misidentify another, whether it be friendly or hostile, is called what?
(a) A target acquisition error.
(b) An intel-reconnaissance failure.
(c) An identification failure.
(d) A recognition error.

14. Hazing occurred at what levels within the American military?
(a) At all levels.
(b) At the low-levels only.
(c) At the middle and upper levels.
(d) At the middle levels only.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the most routine ways that enlisted men dealt with the hazing they received from officers?

2. The author suggests that in warfare, blunders are how common?

3. What nation does the author believe to have military training particularly suited to the comparison that he draws?

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

5. According to one rumor, what substance was added to food served to servicemen?

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