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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of the population can sustain more than a few months duty without sustaining long-term mental damage?
(a) 0.
(b) 25.
(c) 13.
(d) 2.

2. In the final story of Chapter 4, the one in which an American and Viet Cong soldier happen upon each other, who is killed?
(a) The Viet Cong.
(b) The American.
(c) Both men.
(d) Neither man.

3. What was the first crew-served weapon?
(a) The artillery gun.
(b) The chariot.
(c) The submarine.
(d) The phalanx.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 1, Grossman says he will only discover the distance guilt relationship as it concerns what?
(a) America.
(b) Warfare.
(c) Humans.
(d) The twentieth century.

5. What fear did Saddam Hussein seize upon to hold on to power, as discussed in Chapter 2?
(a) A Kurdish secession.
(b) A US invasion.
(c) A Shiite backlash.
(d) Iranian influx.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gossman say edged weapons produce effectively at the beginning of Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 1, Grossman cites a study which says vets are most likely to fire when?

3. As described in Chapter 4, how did German soldiers surrender at the end of World War II?

4. According to Grossman in Chapter 1, what is the primary duty of the leader of a Greek phalanx?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Vietnam story of Chapter 4.

2. According to Grossman in Chapter 4, how do soldiers deal with guilt and horror in combat?

3. How did mechanical distance change the perception of war in the 1990's?

4. Describe the metaphor Grossman uses for fortitude in Chapter 6?

5. What is a crew-served weapon?

6. What does hard-to-soft mean?

7. What inefficiency of edged-weapon combat does Grossman reveal in Chapter 5?

8. As discussed in Chapter 3, what is the emotional advantage of hand grenades?

9. In Chapter 7, what comparison does Grossman draw between firing a gun and masturbation?

10. How does the Yale electroshock study connect with Grossman's thesis in Chapter 1?

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