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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sudden Money and The Big Panjandrum.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Joe Marcus, why are military men sympathetic to business?
(a) Military men strive to win over businessmen.
(b) The military relies on business products.
(c) Business supports the military.
(d) Military men and businessmen are the same kind of people.

2. Why did the girls in Panama avoid the officers from the battleship Arkansas?
(a) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers were married.
(b) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers were prisoners.
(c) The enlisted sailors took all the girls.
(d) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers had gonorrhea.

3. What does Robert Lekachman believe was his salvation in the war?
(a) His poor eyesight kept him out of gunnery school.
(b) His physical weakness kept him out of the infantry.
(c) His lack of ability kept him out of OCS.
(d) His skill with strategy made him an officer.

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

5. Why was Peggy Terry happy during the war?
(a) She enjoyed the sense of camaraderie.
(b) For the first time, she had enough money.
(c) She loved her job.
(d) Shewanted to help defeat Hitler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robert Lekachman believe happened for the last time in World War II?

2. What did John Baker know if he heard an up-and-down howling siren as a child?

3. How did Frank Keegan respond to the bombing of Hiroshima?

4. What did Dr. Drude teach his high school students in Hamburg about the Nazis?

5. What did American soldiers do on the streets of Japan that was considered bad manners?

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