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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. What did Maurice Wilson think when he saw the Japanese war planes over Hawaii?
(a) "Look what pretty planes we got."
(b) "Makes you proud to be an American."
(c) "Today might be my last on earth."
(d) "Here comes trouble."

2. How did the Japanese people feel about the Japanese war veterans?
(a) Worshipful.
(b) Mistrustful.
(c) Resentful.
(d) Grateful.

3. What was a victory girl?
(a) A military nurse.
(b) A girl who joined the Women's Army Corps.
(c) A girl who sang with Bob Hope.
(d) A girl who danced at the USO and wrote letters to soldiers.

4. Why did the girls in Panama avoid the officers from the battleship Arkansas?
(a) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers had gonorrhea.
(b) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers were prisoners.
(c) The enlisted sailors took all the girls.
(d) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers were married.

5. What causes the disease of beriberi, that stops kidney function?
(a) Lack of Vitamin B1.
(b) Lack of protein.
(c) Lack of potassium.
(d) Lack of Vitamin C.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attacked Mexican youth in Los Angeles during the Zoot Suit riots?

2. How did Yasuko Kurachi Dower believe most Japanese civilians felt about the war?

3. Why didn't Maurice Wilson think the Filipinos would hide American escapees from the Japanese prison camp?

4. Which college students were drafted earliest, according to Akira Miuri?

5. What did the German soldiers want from the captured Americans that the Americans destroyed?

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