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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. Which of the following is not a symptom of PTSD?
(a) Social withdrawal.
(b) Intrusive dreams.
(c) Difficulty maintaining relationships.
(d) Bouts of vertigo.

2. What animal was used in Skinner's conditioning experiment?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Humans.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Rats.

3. At the beginning of Chapter 4, what distinction does Grossman make between social learning and the previous two types of conditioning?
(a) It is inherently violent.
(b) It must be perpetrated by a group.
(c) It is unique to primates.
(d) It is experienced by every person.

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

5. What is different about the way the way the hypothetical World War II and Vietnam vets returned home in Chapter 3?
(a) The time it takes.
(b) The number that are alive.
(c) The race of the vets.
(d) The amount of killing they were asked to do.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a response to killing as described at the beginning of Chapter 1?

2. Which stage of the killing process did Eric - who shot a VC soldier while he was urinating - skip,as described in Chapter 2?

3. What story does Grossman end Chapter 4 with?

4. In Chapter 2, Grossman indicates that committing an atrocity can cause what within a group?

5. In RB Anderson's excerpt in Chapter 1, what aspect of Vietnam does he claim non-vets do not understand?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which essential qualities makes a role model desirable as listed in Chapter 4?

2. What is the Weinberger Doctrine?

3. What warning about video games does Grossman make at the end of Chapter 3?

4. What examples from Chapter 6 illustrate a problematic relationship with women in the military?

5. Why was combat in Vietnam particularly dirty, as described in Chapter 2?

6. What are the defining characteristics of a natural warrior?

7. What separates a natural warrior from a psychopath?

8. In Chapter 6, what factors contribute to a soldier's decision to kill in the chart presented and discussed?

9. What are the three categories of atrocity as delineated in Chapter 1?

10. Describe the strange dichotomy between nudity and killing in Western culture?

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