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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did advertisers change their strategies during the war?
(a) They linked their campaigns to military campaigns.
(b) They linked their products to the war effort.
(c) They distanced their products from the war.
(d) They marketed primarily to the military planners.

3. How were most economies organized after the war began?
(a) They were driven by free-market demands.
(b) They were focused solely on wartime production.
(c) They were divided evenly into war and peace production types.
(d) They were almost entirely nationalized for war production.

4. What was the impact of the relatively large number of books read by some servicemen during the war?
(a) It increased dissent and rationality in the enlisted ranks.
(b) It led to increased censorship.
(c) Many went on to seek higher education.
(d) Many became renowned writers.

5. Most idioms of the war arose from which source?
(a) Official reports.
(b) Citizens.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Newspapers.

6. What was a soldier's primary source of information?
(a) Official military publications.
(b) Stateside media.
(c) Word of mouth.
(d) Hand bills and flyers.

7. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that the author states to have been almost totally marred by high-mindedness during the war?
(a) Prose.
(b) Films.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Reporting.

8. Overall, the reading experience of most citizens and soldiers could best be described as which of the following?
(a) Monotonous.
(b) Challenging.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Basic.

9. Many idioms originating in the war might be described as which of the following?
(a) Ham-handed.
(b) Illogical.
(c) Crude.
(d) Serious.

10. What did the average soldiers believe about the meaning of the war?
(a) They strongly disapprove of it.
(b) They have strong opinions about it.
(c) They had no ideas about it.
(d) They are in full support of it.

11. Overall, the author believes that the political and media-based interpretation of the war was what?
(a) Intentionally deceitful.
(b) Uninformed.
(c) Foolish.
(d) Detached from reality.

12. The author states that it was common for the media to suggest that individual soldiers died for what reason?
(a) Because of minor mistakes and chance events.
(b) The defense of liberty.
(c) To defeat Socialism.
(d) Due to his own failings.

13. To soldiers, war reporting lacked what familiar element?
(a) Realism.
(b) Style.
(c) Grittiness.
(d) Idioms.

14. How completely did the mainstream media cover events of the war?
(a) They tried hard to tell the whole story.
(b) They covered only a small part of the story.
(c) They covered small pieces from all sides of the story.
(d) Their coverage was irregular and random.

15. Which of the following did NOT commonly adopt the voice and viewpoint of official state media?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Films.
(c) Public media.
(d) Novels.

Short Answer Questions

1. The term "Chad" originated where?

2. What impact of Horizon is considered briefly at the end of Chapter 15?

3. Overall, the media coverage of the war would best be described as which of the following?

4. Most soldiers had no knowledge of their purpose in regards to what?

5. Which of the following was one of the major publishers to continue to produce books in the manner adopted during the war?

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