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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. What was as important to Italian Americans as cars to mainstream Americans before WWII, according to Paul Pisicano?
(a) Opera.
(b) Cuisine.
(c) Fashion.
(d) Art.

2. How does film critic Pauline Kael feel about the World War II movies?
(a) They were a great support to the public.
(b) They were beautiful.
(c) They were propaganda.
(d) They were harshly realistic.

3. What did the Japanese code of war, Bushido, mean?
(a) No surrender.
(b) In it to win it.
(c) Do your best.
(d) Be all you can be.

4. What percentage of the marines in the Guadalcanal campaign were under twenty-one years of age?
(a) Twenty percent.
(b) Eighty percent.
(c) Fifty percent.
(d) One hundred percent.

5. What was each soldier's ration of cigarettes?
(a) A pack a day.
(b) A pack a week.
(c) A carton a day.
(d) A carton a week.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't the American prisoners of war in Germany try to escape?

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

3. How long was the Bataan Death March?

4. What did people in Paducah burn in a bonfire?

5. Why did the Germans want to keep the American prisoners of war out of Allied hands?

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