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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3,Killing and Physical Distance: From a Distance You Don't Look Anything Like a Friend: Chapter 5, Killing at Edged-Weapons Range | Section 3, Killing and Physical Distance: From a Distance You Don't Look Anything Like a Friend: Chapter 6, Killing at Hand-to-Hand Combat Range.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What conversion did most military personnel make to their bayonets in combat?
(a) They used them as hand weapons.
(b) They used the blunt end of them.
(c) They removed them completely.
(d) They attached them upside down.

2. In the study cited by Grossman at the end of Chapter 5, what stimulus was applied to test dogs?
(a) Loud noises.
(b) Rotten food.
(c) Extreme cold.
(d) Electric shocks.

3. What term does Grossman use in Chapter 6 to indicate the method one uses to kill in hand-to-hand-combat?
(a) Hard to soft.
(b) Breath and blood.
(c) Always on top.
(d) Deflect and deliver.

4. At the end of Chapter 6, Grossman says that what can provide a sudden injection of fortitude into a unit of men?
(a) Rest.
(b) Victory.
(c) Nothing.
(d) New leadership.

5. At the end of Chapter 4, what reason does Grossman give for the increase in firing and killing in recent wars?
(a) Military conditioning practices.
(b) Less close-raange combat.
(c) The end of the draft.
(d) New weapons technology.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Grossman in Chapter 3, why do most soldiers refuse to discuss their aversion to killing?

2. At the end of Chapter 4, what physical reaction to exhaustion and hunger does Grossman cite?

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

4. According to the DSM, when is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder most severe?

5. According to Grossman in Chapter 2, who is often given the cold shoulder in the military?

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