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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. What did E.B. Sledge say the war did to American soldiers?
(a) Turned them into cowards.
(b) Turned them into savages.
(c) Turned them into idiots.
(d) Turned them into patriots.

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

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

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

5. Under the Geneva Convention, what type of work did prisoners of war not have to do?
(a) Road repair.
(b) Farming.
(c) Manufacture of war material.
(d) Spying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the classification 4E mean to a soldier?

2. What did Jean Wood say was the result of deprivation during the war?

3. Which college students were drafted earliest, according to Akira Miuri?

4. What changes does Admiral Larocque believe WWII caused in American national consciousness?

5. Why were civilians saving fat during the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What stereotypes developed in young people's thinking during the war?

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

3. Why were civilians unkind to wounded war veterans, according to Betty Hutchinson?

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

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

6. According to Admiral Gene Larocque, what were the negative long-range effects of WWII within the United States?

7. Why were the troops not allowed to keep diaries of their experiences and what effect did that prohibition have?

8. Why does Peter Bezich feel bitter about the war?

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

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

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