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

2. What did first-generation Japanese parents mean when they taught their children, gaman?
(a) Learn.
(b) Enjoy.
(c) Understand.
(d) Perservere.

3. Why does Jack Short think the GI bill might have been detrimental in the long run?
(a) People could get money without working for it.
(b) People had false expectations for home ownership.
(c) People didn't get paid enough.
(d) People developed false hopes for education.

4. Why did Ray Wax think soldiers in the regular army were inferior?
(a) Many had joined to avoid jail time.
(b) Many were from the South.
(c) Many tested low on IQ tests.
(d) Many were from poor educational backgrounds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What proportion of the inhabitants of Leningrad died when Hitler's forces laid siege to the city?

2. What is a PAF?

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

4. How did John Kenneth Galbraith say the bombing of Hamburg increased the German war effort?

5. Who are the hibakisha?

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