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

2. Why were did the most enduring war novels come out of a certain time period?
(a) The mood of that time captured the total war effort.
(b) Novels were not censored at that time.
(c) A wider range of expression was tolerated.
(d) More writers were available.

3. Most soldiers believed that the meaning and purpose of the war was which of the following?
(a) Ideology.
(b) Nothing definable.
(c) Defeating fascism.
(d) Freedom.

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that American soldiers were told they were fighting for?
(a) Safety.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Enfranchisement.
(d) Freedom.

5. Creepback is a phenomenon occurring in what?
(a) Military intelligence.
(b) Artillery shelling.
(c) Aerial bombing.
(d) Foundering offensives.

Short Answer Questions

1. A typical soldier's amount of downtime would best be described as which of the following?

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

3. Overall, the author believes that the political and media-based interpretation of the war was what?

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that the author states to have been almost totally marred by high-mindedness during the war?

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the resources that the author cites specifically as being scarce during the war?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

5. Overall, what was the media portrayal of the war like?

6. How did soldiers react to the media's presentation of the war?

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

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

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

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

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