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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rosie, Neighborhood Boys, and Reflections on Machismo.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dellie Hahne believe military wives were regarded?
(a) Military wives were physically abused.
(b) Military wives were venerated.
(c) Military wives were looked down upon.
(d) Military wives were overprotected.

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

3. What does Robert Lekachman believe was his salvation in the war?
(a) His skill with strategy made him an officer.
(b) His poor eyesight kept him out of gunnery school.
(c) His physical weakness kept him out of the infantry.
(d) His lack of ability kept him out of OCS.

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

5. What did Sarah Killingsworth believe the war offered to her and her family?
(a) Training.
(b) Education.
(c) A path for acceptance in the white world.
(d) Jobs that paid well.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Robert Rasmus feel looking at the faces of the German dead?

2. What did most conversations among prisoners of war center around?

3. Where does Richard Prendergast say the biggest infantrymen are placed?

4. What does Lekachman believe World War II veterans feel about their war experiences?

5. Under the Geneva Convention, what type of work did prisoners of war not have to do?

(see the answer key)

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