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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby, Remembrance of Things Past, and Epilogue: Boom Babies and Other New People.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What changes does Admiral Larocque believe WWII caused in American national consciousness?
(a) Planning for war was a religious act.
(b) Planning for war was unavoidable.
(c) Planning for war became permanently institutionalized.
(d) Planning for war was forever to be avoided.

2. What does John Ciardi believe could make anyone savage?
(a) Uncontrolled anger.
(b) Deprivation and suffering.
(c) A propaganda barrage.
(d) Loyalty to false leadership.

3. How did Galatea Berger remember soldiers smelled in Germany?
(a) Soldiers smelled like cigarettes, gum, and chocolates.
(b) Soldiers smelled like gunpowder.
(c) Soldiers smelled like alcohol and tobacco.
(d) Soldiers smelled unwashed and unpleasant.

4. Why was Joseph Small tried for mutiny?
(a) He refused to return to duty after the explosion at Port Chicago.
(b) He started a riot at Port Chicago.
(c) He persuaded other men to refuse to work.
(d) He started the explosion at Port Chicago.

5. According to Bill Mauldin, what did Russia waste after the war?
(a) Food and supplies.
(b) British support.
(c) The lives of their soldiers.
(d) American good will.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a Victory Garden?

2. Why does Robert Rasmus say he could remember people he knew for a short time many years ago?

3. According to Joe Marcus, why are military men sympathetic to business?

4. What did the French army do instead of censoring mail?

5. What does Erich Luth say the German nation lacks?

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