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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7, Killing in Vietnam: What Have We Done to Our Soldiers? : Chapter 5, What are We Doing to Our Children?.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Grossman in Chapter 5, what component separates a natural warrior from a psychopath?
(a) Control.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Charisma.
(d) Empathy.

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

4. Where did the VFW Hall story at the beginning of Chapter 1 take place?
(a) Florida.
(b) Ohio.
(c) New York.
(d) Arkansas.

5. According to Grossman in Chapter 1, what was the solution the American military's solution after World War II to many soldiers more willing to shoot?
(a) More careful recruiting screening.
(b) An all-volunteer army.
(c) Psychological bombardment.
(d) Advances in rifle firing range.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 5, how does Grossman describe the power of the edged-weapon threat?

2. According to Grossman in Chapter 2, what do POW executions do to an enemy?

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

4. Which Civil War officer does Grossman quote at the beginning of Chapter 5?

5. In the mythology cited at the end of Chapter 7, who is born of the marriage of Aries and Aphrodite?

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