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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 did the British women do with their goods during the war?
(a) Hid them.
(b) Hoarded them.
(c) Swapped them.
(d) Sold them.

2. What unusual food did Maurice Wilson eat in the Philippines?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Horses.
(c) Mice.
(d) Cats.

3. Why did the Japanese overseers get angry if the American prisoners killed a snake?
(a) They liked to eat snake.
(b) They worshipped snakes.
(c) They didn't want prisoners fighting over food.
(d) They didn't want working prisoners poisoned.

4. What does Jun Kurose say that the Friends Service Committee advised Japanese internees to do?
(a) Find attorneys to plead their cause.
(b) Refuse to leave their homes.
(c) Arm themselves for self-defense.
(d) Go willingly to the camps.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What worried Peggy Terry when the tetryl she was working with turned her hair orange?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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