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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Accentuate the positive" describes a media strategy to do what?
(a) Keep American's thoroughly informed.
(b) Write in a positive way.
(c) Emphasize American successes.
(d) Deny cover ups and scandals.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was done in England to frustrate a potential invading force?

2. The deprivation that the title of Chapter 14 refers to is a deprivation of what resource?

3. Chapter 10 centers around the common soldier's perception of what characteristic of the war?

4. Many idioms originating in the war might be described as which of the following?

5. Which of the following is an example of an official idiom first used in World War II?

Short Essay Questions

1. How often did soldiers read and what impact did it have on them?

2. How were books adapted for soldiers' use, and how did these changes persist after the war?

3. Why did citizens in the US and England suffer from deprivation?

4. What qualities caused an idiom to transfer to enter the general vocabulary?

5. What critical knowledge did an average soldier typically lack?

6. How and why did the media fail to report the entire story of the war?

7. How did media organizations gain access to war zones for their reporters?

8. What was the overall reading experience of citizens and soldiers like during the war?

9. Simply stated, what is the policy of "accentuating the positive"?

10. What difficulties did the publishing industry face during the war?

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