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

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

3. Where was Robert Rasmus when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) Fighting in Germany.
(b) Training for the invasion of Japan.
(c) Fighting in the South Pacific.
(d) Fighting in France.

4. Why were thirty-two American servicemen killed after hearing the announcement of Japan's surrender?
(a) Collisions caused by drunk driving.
(b) Stray bullets from the celebration.
(c) Retaliation from the Hawaiian Japanese.
(d) Executions for war crimes.

5. Why did Anton Biler join the army?
(a) To learn a trade.
(b) To get an education.
(c) To defeat the Nazis.
(d) To defend his country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What black market item was in demand among Russian troops in Vienna in 1945?

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

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

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

5. Why does Richard Prendergast say the pillboxes were of no use to the infantrymen?

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