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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. What stigma constitutes a gray atrocity?
(a) One in which individual soldiers act without orders.
(b) One in which lines between ally and enemy are gone.
(c) One in which both sides face civilian casualties.
(d) One in which loss of life is minimal.

2. Which of the following is not a category of atrocity listed in Chapter 1?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Gray.
(d) Black.

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

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

5. 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) Stag.
(b) Ram.
(c) Orca.
(d) Gorilla.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city did King Sennacherib destroy?

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

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

4. What is the unifying element that links all of the coping tactics in Chapter 3?

5. How does the military normally deal with the problem of exhaustion in combat?

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