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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one major product for which many improvised substitutes were devised?
(a) Gasoline.
(b) Bread.
(c) Butter.
(d) Coffee.

2. Overall, the media coverage of the war would best be described as which of the following?
(a) Homogeneous.
(b) Deceitful.
(c) Inadequate.
(d) Random.

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

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

5. What was the public reaction to censorship?
(a) It was accepted.
(b) It was tolerated occasionally.
(c) It was not generally known of.
(d) It was railed against.

6. What type of magazine was Horizon?
(a) A literary journal.
(b) A political magazine.
(c) A news journal.
(d) A popular periodical.

7. Chapter 10 centers around the common soldier's perception of what characteristic of the war?
(a) Its progress.
(b) Its diplomatic nature.
(c) Its ideological nature.
(d) The technology used in it.

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

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

10. What was the impact of the mainstream presentation of the war in the American media?
(a) It hurt the war effort.
(b) It invalidated the wartime experience.
(c) It demoralized the troops.
(d) It belittled the soldiers in the war.

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

12. What practice became popular at home during the war?
(a) Group-singing.
(b) Parades.
(c) Home defense drills.
(d) Marches.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Censorship usually consisted of what?

2. How did most soldiers regard reading?

3. Overall, the deprivation faced by American and British citizens would best be described as which of the following?

4. How did most media outlets react to the requirements placed on them?

5. How were most economies organized after the war began?

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