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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Robert Rasmus say he could remember people he knew for a short time many years ago?
(a) The war made everything more memorable.
(b) He looks at the yearbooks from time to time.
(c) His short-term memory is weaker.
(d) They kept in touch over the years.

3. What did Robert Rasmus think when he saw the ambulances arriving on the morning his group was attacking?
(a) That it was inevitable that bad things were about to happen.
(b) That they would have immediate backup.
(c) That modern medicine was a blessing.
(d) That they were all in it together.

4. What surprised Anton Biler about his Japanese overseer in the prison camp?
(a) He was from Seattle.
(b) He spoke English.
(c) He was against the war.
(d) He was kind.

5. What right for ex-felons did John Abbott win in the Supreme Court?
(a) The right to vote.
(b) The right to work for federal agencies.
(c) The right to gather in meetings.
(d) The right to marry.

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

7. What does Peter Ota tell us is worse than death in Japanese culture?
(a) Shame.
(b) Unkindness.
(c) Fear.
(d) Dishonesty.

8. What did Sarah Killingsworth believe the war offered to her and her family?
(a) Education.
(b) Training.
(c) A path for acceptance in the white world.
(d) Jobs that paid well.

9. How did Robert Rasmus feel looking at the faces of the German dead?
(a) They were brutish and cruel.
(b) They were boys like him.
(c) They were an abstraction, not human beings.
(d) They didn't seem real.

10. What is a PAF?
(a) A premature anti-fascist - fighting fascism before the U.S. did.
(b) A publicly aware fascist.
(c) A public anti-fascist.
(d) A political anti-fascist.

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

12. Why did Anton Biler join the army?
(a) To defeat the Nazis.
(b) To get an education.
(c) To learn a trade.
(d) To defend his country.

13. What is a dogfight?
(a) Two airplanes firing at each other.
(b) Hand-to-hand combat.
(c) Bombing.
(d) Infantry warfare.

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

15. How does Mike Royko believe most U.S. soldiers felt about the Korean conflict?
(a) They didn't understand it.
(b) They wanted to defeat North Korea.
(c) They were glad to have their chance to fight.
(d) They wanted to defend South Korea.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did American soldiers kill Hawaiian civilians?

2. What was as important to Italian Americans as cars to mainstream Americans before WWII, according to Paul Pisicano?

3. How long was the Bataan Death March?

4. Why did the Japanese overseers get angry if the American prisoners killed a snake?

5. How many support personnel were behind each rifleman?

(see the answer keys)

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