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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 surprised Anton Biler about his Japanese overseer in the prison camp?
(a) He was kind.
(b) He was against the war.
(c) He was from Seattle.
(d) He spoke English.

2. What does Dellie Hahne say was the duty of young women during the war?
(a) To recycle and conserve energy.
(b) To sew bandages.
(c) To plant victory gardens.
(d) To dance with soldiers at the USO.

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

4. Why did the Germans want to keep the American prisoners of war out of Allied hands?
(a) The prisoners were their only bargaining point.
(b) They were afraid of what the prisoners would do in retaliation.
(c) They expected the war to go on.
(d) They were remorseful about their mistreatment.

5. What caused Dellie Hahne to begin to distrust her government?
(a) The unkind treatment of war brides.
(b) The ration system.
(c) The pressure to marry a soldier.
(d) The change in status of Russia from enemy to ally.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the classification 4E mean to a soldier?

2. What did first-generation Japanese parents mean when they taught their children, gaman?

3. What does Jun Kurose say that the Friends Service Committee advised Japanese internees to do?

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

5. What was each soldier's ration of cigarettes?

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