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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author establish the common soldier's opinion of the meaning of the war?
(a) Through anecdotes.
(b) Through statistics.
(c) Through personal stories.
(d) Through prose and verse quotations.

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

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

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

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the resources that the author cites specifically as being scarce during the war?
(a) Glue.
(b) Paper.
(c) Ink.
(d) Binding boards.

6. What author is specifically credited with producing an accurate memoir of the war?
(a) B. H. Liddell Hart.
(b) Robert M. Citino.
(c) Stephen Ambrose.
(d) Eugene B. Sledge.

7. Media outlets were concerned with the esprit de corps in what areas?
(a) In headquarters.
(b) In Europe only.
(c) Abroad.
(d) At the front and at home.

8. Why did most media outlets adopts their reaction to the requirements placed on them?
(a) Due to competition.
(b) Out of professionalism.
(c) Because of federal mandates.
(d) They felt it was a patriotic duty.

9. What qualifications did reporters need in order to gain access to war zones?
(a) Signed statements of confidentiality.
(b) Immediate family serving in the war.
(c) Non German or Japanese heritage.
(d) Compliance with military guidelines.

10. Contrary to the media's presentation, the author believed that most allied victories were due to what factors?
(a) Skill and courage.
(b) Mass production and good strategy.
(c) Luck and boldness.
(d) Air power and individual leadership.

11. How did the media handle the worst aspects of the war?
(a) By ignoring them.
(b) By attributing them to the enemy.
(c) By using euphemisms.
(d) By covering them up.

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

13. What type of novels became more popular during the war?
(a) Biographies.
(b) Mysteries.
(c) Classics.
(d) War stories.

14. Books produced specifically for servicemen were made specially in what way?
(a) They usually had a steel backing.
(b) They were bound with extra strength.
(c) They were sized to fit in their pockets.
(d) They came with waterproof covers.

15. Why were novels produced before the war more popular than contemporary ones?
(a) The subject was not limited to the war.
(b) They reminded people of a better time.
(c) People needed an escape from the deprivations of the war.
(d) Difference of opinion was not frowned upon then.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most idioms of the war arose from which source?

2. Overall, the author believes that the political and media-based interpretation of the war was what?

3. Overall, the example that Horizon set was which of the following?

4. What practice became popular at home during the war?

5. What was the public reaction to censorship?

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