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

2. Later in the war, the media presented most allied victories as triumphs over what forces?
(a) Forsaken people and outdated beliefs.
(b) Tyranny and oppression.
(c) Superstition and slavery.
(d) Godlessness and evil.

3. The compensation from the title of Chapter 15 refers to what?
(a) Allied victories.
(b) Pay for soldiers.
(c) Good things that came out of the war.
(d) The upside of excessive patriotism.

4. Which of the following best describes what the author believes about the US media's depiction of warfare?
(a) It was falsified.
(b) It was misleading.
(c) It was generally accurate.
(d) It was inadequate.

5. What type of story is specifically cite as being very likely to be reported by mainstream media of the era?
(a) Reports from allied bombing raids.
(b) Biographies of individual soldiers.
(c) Great victories.
(d) Detailed accounts of campaigns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that American soldiers were usually portrayed by the media?

2. What other outlets are specifically cited in Chapter 13 for adopting the tone and texture of official media?

3. Which of the following was a predominant source of media during World War II?

4. How did most soldiers regard reading?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What were American soldiers told they were fighting for?

4. How did the media imply God's involvement in the war?

5. What is one way that a person could become considered to be subversive?

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

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

8. What did front line troops usually believe about depictions of their wartime experiences?

9. What does RADAR stand for?

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

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