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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through High Rank and The Bombers and the Bombed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paul Pisicano believe binds American suburbians?
(a) Anti-black sentiment.
(b) Anti-Italian sentiment.
(c) Anti-German sentiment.
(d) Anti-Jewish sentiment.

2. Which city suffered the highest death toll from American bombing?
(a) Nagasaki.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Hiroshima.
(d) Dresden.

3. What did Robert Rasmus think when he saw the ambulances arriving on the morning his group was attacking?
(a) That modern medicine was a blessing.
(b) That they would have immediate backup.
(c) That it was inevitable that bad things were about to happen.
(d) That they were all in it together.

4. How did Robert Rasmus feel looking at the faces of the German dead?
(a) They didn't seem real.
(b) They were brutish and cruel.
(c) They were an abstraction, not human beings.
(d) They were boys like him.

5. How did Frank Keegan respond to the bombing of Hiroshima?
(a) He thought it was great because it stopped the war.
(b) He thought it was horrible because it killed innocent people.
(c) He thought it was a miracle because it was new technology.
(d) He thought it was unnecessary because they were winning anyway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Anton Biler join the army?

2. What did Paul Pisicano believe Italian Americans felt about the Axis countries in World War II?

3. How does film critic Pauline Kael feel about the World War II movies?

4. What was as important to Italian Americans as cars to mainstream Americans before WWII, according to Paul Pisicano?

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

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