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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was new about the enemy composition in Vietnam as opposed to previous wars?
(a) Their were many women combatants.
(b) The enemy hid in tunnels.
(c) The enemy blended in with the populace.
(d) The enemy was younger in age.

2. Which of the following is not a means of recuperation Grossman endorses for PTSD in Chapter 3?
(a) Medication.
(b) Bonding with vets.
(c) Support groups.
(d) Safe disclosure.

3. Which of the following is an essential quality that makes a role model desirable as listed in Chapter 4?
(a) Physical attractiveness.
(b) Identical nationality.
(c) Similarity to learner.
(d) Widespread recognizability.

4. Which of the following theorists presents evidence concerning proximity of authority and peer groups?
(a) Marshall.
(b) Shalit.
(c) Swank.
(d) Milgram.

5. In Chapter 5, how does Grossman describe natural warriors' attitudes toward less aggressive colleagues?
(a) Protective.
(b) Wary.
(c) Contemptuous.
(d) Dismissive.

6. In his anecdote of Chapter 2, what event elicited surprisingly violent action from Richard Heckler?
(a) His wife leaving him.
(b) A mugging.
(c) His mother's death.
(d) A long line at a supermarket.

7. In Chapter 3, Grossman says the western-style shooting games are similar to what?
(a) A real wartime firefight.
(b) A police shooting training.
(c) A carnival game.
(d) A paintball competition.

8. In the beginning of Chapter 4, Grossman says the highest estimate for the number of Vietnam vets with PTSD is what?
(a) 1.9 million.
(b) 1.1 million.
(c) 2.4 million.
(d) 1.5 million.

9. In Vietnam, about how many sniper rounds did it take to kill one enemy soldier?
(a) 3.12.
(b) 2.50.
(c) 1.
(d) 1.39.

10. To what dystopian novel does Grossman compare military conditioning in Chapter 2?
(a) 1984.
(b) The Road.
(c) Clockwork Orange.
(d) Brave New World.

11. According to Grossman in Chapter 3, what does the army use in rifle training?
(a) A picture of Osama bin Laden.
(b) A bulls-eye.
(c) A human sillhouette.
(d) A bowling pin.

12. What cold consolation for Vietnam vets does Grossman acknowledge in Chapter 2?
(a) The end of the draft.
(b) The changes to military training policy because of the war.
(c) The fall of the Soviet Union.
(d) The successful political careers of several vets.

13. 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 liberation of a concentration camp.
(b) The Normandy landing.
(c) The bombardment of a Japanese island.
(d) The bombing of Nagasaki.

14. In Chapter 6, Grossman indicates that an Islamic suicide bomber's authority figure is what?
(a) God.
(b) A religious leader.
(c) A terrorist cell leader.
(d) Himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following theorists presents evidence concerning tactical attractiveness of a victim?

2. In Grossman's Chapter 2 trajectory of increasingly violent media, where do children go after cartoons?

3. What does Grossman credit with reducing the number of homicides in America in Chapter 1?

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

5. In Chapter 2, what advice do German World War I vets give World War II recruits?

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