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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5, Killing and Atrocities: No Honor Here, No Virtue : Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not an animal that Grossman uses as an example of sexual dominating behavior at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Orca.
(b) Gorilla.
(c) Stag.
(d) Ram.

2. According to Grossman in Chapter 2, what do POW executions do to an enemy?
(a) Make them more aggressive.
(b) Give them reason to murder your POW's
(c) Break their morale.
(d) Destroy their civilian support.

3. According to Grossman in Chapter 1, why is it easy for the wealthy to oppress the poor without feeling guilt?
(a) They do not see the effects of the oppression.
(b) The wealthy do not feel guilt.
(c) They think they are helping to motivate the poor to work.
(d) Theydo not consider the poor people.

4. In Chapter 2, Grossman indicates that committing an atrocity can cause what within a group?
(a) Mass battle fatigue.
(b) Dissent.
(c) Identification with the enemy.
(d) Closer bonding.

5. In Chapter 7, an anonymous soldier compares what horrific incident to masturbation?
(a) The Katyn massacre.
(b) The My Lai massacre.
(c) The Cultural Revolution.
(d) The Battle of Shiloh.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Grossman at the end of Chapter 5, on which individual are the affects of horror in combat most psychologically damaging?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 1, Grossman says he will only discover the distance guilt relationship as it concerns what?

3. In the beginning of Chapter 3, what does the Vietnam vet assume is on the back of the picture in Grossman's story?

4. Chapter 7 begins with several vets joking about raping and murdering which public figure?

5. How many tours in Vietnam did the vet quoted in Chapter 7 serve before realizing that the killing urge was consuming him?

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