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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jean Wood say was the result of deprivation during the war?
(a) People became demoralized.
(b) People became discouraged.
(c) People became inventive.
(d) People became selfish.

2. What worried Peggy Terry when the tetryl she was working with turned her hair orange?
(a) The toxic fumes might kill her.
(b) The toxic ingredients might make her sick.
(c) The toxic ingredients might make her sterile.
(d) Other women would think she had dyed her hair.

3. What did most conversations among prisoners of war center around?
(a) Politics.
(b) Sex.
(c) Sports.
(d) Food.

4. Why didn't Maurice Wilson think the Filipinos would hide American escapees from the Japanese prison camp?
(a) The Filipinos were enemies as well.
(b) The Filipinos hated the Americans.
(c) The Filipinos would turn them in for the reward.
(d) The Filipinos were afraid of the Japanese.

5. Why was Peter Bezich ordered to sell his boat?
(a) He was suspected of trying to escape.
(b) He was envied by the local Filipinos.
(c) He was getting strafed by his own men.
(d) His buddies were jealous.

6. How did John Ciardi feel about the dropping of the atomic bomb?
(a) He had no further reason to live.
(b) He had won the lottery.
(c) He had regained faith in his country.
(d) He had lost the lottery.

7. Where was Robert Rasmus when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) Fighting in Germany.
(b) Training for the invasion of Japan.
(c) Fighting in the South Pacific.
(d) Fighting in France.

8. What does Robert Lekachman believe happened for the last time in World War II?
(a) Americans helped other nations.
(b) Americans were patriotic.
(c) Americans hated another nation.
(d) Americans saw themselves as good.

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

10. How does film critic Pauline Kael feel about the World War II movies?
(a) They were beautiful.
(b) They were propaganda.
(c) They were harshly realistic.
(d) They were a great support to the public.

11. What did Admiral Larocque think of the Japanese during the war?
(a) The Japanese were wily and clever.
(b) The Japanese were unbeatable.
(c) The Japanese were a superior race.
(d) The Japanese were a lesser species.

12. How did American soldiers kill Hawaiian civilians?
(a) Firing short-range weapons at Japanese airplanes.
(b) Believing they were Japanese spies.
(c) Confusing them with Japanese army personnel.
(d) Dropping bombs on Honolulu.

13. Why were civilians saving fat during the war?
(a) To make lotions.
(b) To make nitroglycerine.
(c) To make salve.
(d) To make soap.

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

15. How long did a recruit from another country have to be in the U.S. army to become a citizen?
(a) Four full years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Ninety days.
(d) One hundred and eighty days.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What surprised Anton Biler about his Japanese overseer in the prison camp?

3. What did Ted Allenby promise the homosexual soldiers in his chaplaincy?

4. What right for ex-felons did John Abbott win in the Supreme Court?

5. How does Mike Royko believe most U.S. soldiers felt about the Korean conflict?

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