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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 4, The Limits of Human Endurance and the Lessons of Vietnam.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What experience described at the end of Chapter 2 caused guilt in Sol, a World War II vet who did not take part in killing?
(a) The bombardment of a Japanese island.
(b) The bombing of Nagasaki.
(c) The liberation of a concentration camp.
(d) The Normandy landing.

2. In Chapter 5, to what group did the German defector interviewed switch?
(a) The German communists.
(b) The French resistance.
(c) The Red Army.
(d) The American intelligence community.

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

4. What term arose in the early 1990's to describe the new fighting techniques seen in the Gulf War?
(a) Mail-order war.
(b) Telegraph war.
(c) Calling-card war.
(d) Nintendo war.

5. In the World War II stories of Chapter 4, what do soldiers do to avoid killing?
(a) Surrender to German troops.
(b) Pretend to be dead.
(c) Smoke cigarettes.
(d) Sleep.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, what tactic does Grossman describe as key to training soldiers to fire in combat?

3. What reason is given in Bhagavad Gita to justify killing?

4. Which of the following is not a symptom of PTSD?

5. In Vietnam, about how many rounds did it take to kill one enemy soldier?

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