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

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

3. What did the German soldiers want from the captured Americans that the Americans destroyed?
(a) Their .45 pistols.
(b) Their mortars.
(c) Their machine guns.
(d) Their ammunition.

4. What did soldiers on troop ships understand about their destination, according to General William Buster?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Only where they were landing.
(c) Only what their mission would be upon landing.
(d) Only where they would spend the first few weeks after landing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Robert Rasmus believe fighting the Russians would fail?

2. What percentage of the marines in the Guadalcanal campaign were under twenty-one years of age?

3. What did Sarah Killingsworth believe the war offered to her and her family?

4. How did the people of Pasadena react to the sight of wounded veterans?

5. Why did Londoners run toward parachuting soldiers?

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