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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flying High and Up Front with Pen, Camera, and Mike.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Walter Rosenblum do during WWII?
(a) He was a brigade commander.
(b) He was a combat photographer.
(c) He was a Voice of America reporter.
(d) He was a flautist in the army band.

2. What does Dellie Hahne say was the duty of young women during the war?
(a) To recycle and conserve energy.
(b) To dance with soldiers at the USO.
(c) To plant victory gardens.
(d) To sew bandages.

3. What does Paul Pisicano believe binds American suburbians?
(a) Anti-black sentiment.
(b) Anti-German sentiment.
(c) Anti-Jewish sentiment.
(d) Anti-Italian sentiment.

4. Why didn't Henry Hatfield want to broadcast the destruction done to German cities?
(a) He didn't think Americans wanted to gloat.
(b) He thought other stories were more compelling.
(c) He was heartsick at the ruins he observed.
(d) He thought Germany was old news.

5. What was John Abbott's sentence for refusing the draft?
(a) Six months in jail.
(b) Two years in federal prison.
(c) Death by firing squad.
(d) Community service on an Indian reservation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why should John Houseman not have been allowed to broadcast on the Voice of America?

2. How does film critic Pauline Kael feel about the World War II movies?

3. What does the classification 4E mean to a soldier?

4. What racism did Sheril Cunning experience growing up in California?

5. How did the Japanese people feel about the Japanese war veterans?

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