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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Censorship usually consisted of what?
(a) Editing out sections of books before printing.
(b) Condemning certain publishers.
(c) Burning subversive books.
(d) Not printing certain books.

2. Which of the following was a predominant source of media during World War II?
(a) Radio.
(b) Flyers and handbills.
(c) Public Address.
(d) Print Advertisements.

3. Overall, the media presented the war effort as being which of the following?
(a) A struggle to the death.
(b) An unwinnable debacle.
(c) An immoral act of aggression.
(d) A good-versus-evil apocalypse.

4. Which of the following is one major type of resource that American citizens were deprived of during the war?
(a) Meats.
(b) Exotic foods.
(c) Tea.
(d) Wood for construction.

5. A typical soldier's amount of downtime would best be described as which of the following?
(a) Reasonable.
(b) Scarce.
(c) Inordinate.
(d) Short and rare.

6. What type of story is specifically cite as being very likely to be reported by mainstream media of the era?
(a) Great victories.
(b) Detailed accounts of campaigns.
(c) Reports from allied bombing raids.
(d) Biographies of individual soldiers.

7. The media presented a view wherein the suffering of the nation's citizenry was linked to what?
(a) Necessary sacrifices.
(b) A grand strategy.
(c) The enemy's aggression.
(d) Lofty ideals.

8. Which of the following best describes what the author believes about the US media's depiction of warfare?
(a) It was falsified.
(b) It was misleading.
(c) It was inadequate.
(d) It was generally accurate.

9. What other outlets are specifically cited in Chapter 13 for adopting the tone and texture of official media?
(a) Religious services.
(b) Movies.
(c) Fiction and poetry.
(d) Public service announcements.

10. Creepback is a phenomenon occurring in what?
(a) Artillery shelling.
(b) Military intelligence.
(c) Aerial bombing.
(d) Foundering offensives.

11. When were most enduring war novels written?
(a) During the early days of the war.
(b) During the later days of the war.
(c) Before America's entry into the war.
(d) After the war.

12. Which of the following is an example of an official idiom first used in World War II?
(a) Destroyer.
(b) Scuba.
(c) Grunt.
(d) Radar.

13. Many terms that persisted after the war had what quality?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Patriotic meaning.
(c) Meter.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

14. What were depictions of combat conditions like in media of the era?
(a) Homogenized and sanitized.
(b) Inaccurate and varied.
(c) Uninformed but impassioned.
(d) Realistic.

15. Who was the editor of Horizon?
(a) Stanley Milgram.
(b) Anthony Edwards.
(c) Cyril Connolly.
(d) Nigel Dennis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Citizens were considered subversive if they did not participate in what efforts?

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the elements that the author states to be missing from most venues during the war?

3. What was the impact of the relatively large number of books read by some servicemen during the war?

4. Why were did the most enduring war novels come out of a certain time period?

5. Idioms were often adapted to what medium?

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