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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. Most soldiers believed that their actual wartime experiences would be reported when?
(a) Only during the war.
(b) Soon after the war.
(c) Never.
(d) Long after the war.

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

3. Censorship usually consisted of what?
(a) Condemning certain publishers.
(b) Not printing certain books.
(c) Editing out sections of books before printing.
(d) Burning subversive books.

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

5. Overall, the example that Horizon set was which of the following?
(a) Unimportant.
(b) Subversive.
(c) Positive.
(d) Negative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a soldier's primary source of information?

2. What was one of the causes of the lack of quality in the media and other outlets during the war?

3. How was God related to the war in the political and media interpretation in America?

4. Idioms were often adapted to what medium?

5. What is one major product for which many improvised substitutes were devised?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What types of stories would be most likely to be reported on?

3. Why were front line soldiers confused by media presentations of the war?

4. How did the average soldier view the war?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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