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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Growing Up: Here and There, D-Day and All That, and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Mike Royko spent nights in a pitch-black apartment as a child during the war?
(a) His parents were too poor to pay for electricity.
(b) The government cut off electricity.
(c) Chicago was under attack.
(d) The air raid wardens called for blackouts.

2. Why didn't Maurice Wilson think the Filipinos would hide American escapees from the Japanese prison camp?
(a) The Filipinos hated the Americans.
(b) The Filipinos were enemies as well.
(c) The Filipinos were afraid of the Japanese.
(d) The Filipinos would turn them in for the reward.

3. How many support personnel were behind each rifleman?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Two.
(c) Seven.
(d) Twenty-four.

4. Why were the soldiers forbidden to keep diaries?
(a) Families should be protected from sad information.
(b) Diaries found by the enemy could give information.
(c) They were instructed to forget the tragedies they saw.
(d) There would be no time to sit and write.

5. How did the people of Pasadena react to the sight of wounded veterans?
(a) With gifts and offers of help.
(b) With parades in their honor.
(c) With visits to the VA hospitals.
(d) With requests to keep them off the streets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unusual food did Maurice Wilson eat in the Philippines?

2. What did soldiers on troop ships understand about their destination, according to General William Buster?

3. How did American soldiers kill Hawaiian civilians?

4. What is the difference between an Anderson shelter and a Morrison shelter?

5. What unusual food did Ken Hourigan eat in the Philippines?

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