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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Robert Rasmus feel about escaping the Battle of the Bulge because of the flu?
(a) He was heartbroken.
(b) He was thrilled.
(c) He was thankful.
(d) He was relieved.

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

3. Why did Peter Bezich's son go to prison?
(a) He burned the flag.
(b) He refused to be drafted.
(c) He tried to assassinate the president.
(d) He joined the Communist party.

4. What caused Dellie Hahne to begin to distrust her government?
(a) The unkind treatment of war brides.
(b) The pressure to marry a soldier.
(c) The ration system.
(d) The change in status of Russia from enemy to ally.

5. What did people in Paducah burn in a bonfire?
(a) All their Japanese products.
(b) All their German products.
(c) Emperor Hirohito's effigy.
(d) Posters of Hitler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did most conversations among prisoners of war center around?

2. Why did Mike Royko spent nights in a pitch-black apartment as a child during the war?

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

4. Under the Geneva Convention, what type of work did prisoners of war not have to do?

5. How does Robert Rasmus feel about life's problems since the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were the American prisoners of war treated by the German guards?

2. What does Anton Bilek believe cost heavy loss of American lives in the Philippines?

3. What was the difference between the fate of Russian prisoners of war and American and British POWs?

4. How did Akira Miuri feel about Americans during the war?

5. How did the war affect college-aged men?

6. How does Peggy Terry feel about war now?

7. How does Urusula Bender say the war was different for children?

8. What did the respondents feel about the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima?

9. Why did E.B. Sledge believe American soldiers in the Pacific had lost all sense of decency?

10. How did Pauline Kael feel about the movies during World War II?

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