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

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

3. Who was the editor of Horizon?
(a) Stanley Milgram.
(b) Cyril Connolly.
(c) Nigel Dennis.
(d) Anthony Edwards.

4. How was God related to the war in the political and media interpretation in America?
(a) God had allowed the war to happen.
(b) God was on the allies' side.
(c) God wanted the German people to be punished.
(d) God wanted to war to end.

5. Most of the efforts discussed in America and Britain were aimed at which of the following?
(a) Increasing the resiliency of industry.
(b) Reducing use of products.
(c) Getting citizens to manufacture products in their space time.
(d) Creating new products.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the state of the global economy before the war began?

2. The media tended to do what with negative reports from the war?

3. Later in the war, the media presented most allied victories as triumphs over what forces?

4. How did the media handle the worst aspects of the war?

5. Why did most media outlets adopts their reaction to the requirements placed on them?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did wartime reporting often fail to capture the realities of warfare?

5. What is one type of preparation that was made in England in anticipation of an invasion?

6. What were the aims of most production-related public efforts in the US?

7. How did advertisers think of and take advantage of the war?

8. What does the author believe about the phenomenon of attributing high-minded ideals to the purpose of a war?

9. What was the importance of the literary journal Horizon?

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

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