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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What impact of Horizon is considered briefly at the end of Chapter 15?
(a) Its understated impact.
(b) Its impact on contemporary journalistic style.
(c) Its impact on state media.
(d) Its continuing impact.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Idioms were often adapted to what medium?
(a) Song.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Journalism.
(d) Advertising jingles.

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

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

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 belittled the soldiers in the war.
(d) It demoralized the troops.

11. How did advertisers and other companies think of the war?
(a) As a cost of doing business.
(b) As a tragedy.
(c) As a waste.
(d) As a sales device.

12. How did most soldiers regard reading?
(a) They engaged in it only when there were no alternatives.
(b) They looked down on it.
(c) They loved it as a pastime.
(d) They regarded it as pointless.

13. Who controlled access to war zones for public media staff?
(a) War planners.
(b) The executive branch.
(c) The military.
(d) The state media.

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

15. Citizens were considered subversive if they did not participate in what efforts?
(a) Home gardening.
(b) Supporting the troops.
(c) Donating metal for munitions.
(d) Recycling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Contrary to the media's presentation, the author believed that most allied victories were due to what factors?

2. Many terms that persisted after the war had what quality?

3. What qualifications did reporters need in order to gain access to war zones?

4. Books produced specifically for servicemen were made specially in what way?

5. The soldiers' primary sources of information primarily focused on what subject?

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