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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does Richard Leacock claim direct contact with death had upon him?

2. Why was Joseph Small tried for mutiny?

3. What were newsmen in the OWI not allowed to do?

4. According to Alfred Duckett, what bothered black soldiers most?

5. Why were the Japanese pleased when American officers chose their homes to occupy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does George Oremont say was required to make money during the war?

2. What does Gobeler think that sailors all over the world have in common?

3. According to Tommy Corcoran, what was Joseph Kennedy's strategy for the war?

4. What was George Page's strategy for making money on rentals during the war?

5. According to Lowell Steward, what was the status of the black Tuskegee flying squadron?

6. According to Yasuko Dower, what was different about American customs that she observed when the country was occupied by U.S. troops?

7. How did Ray Wax feel about his participation in the war?

8. How does Bill Mauldin believe most infantrymen thought the war should be settled?

9. Why does Jacques Raboud believe it will be difficult for his generation to erase hatred?

10. According to Colonel Gleed, how did the study made by the War Department in 1925 affect the black community?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were perhaps the most dramatic and controversial events of the war. Do you believe Truman was right or wrong to order the bombs to destroy those cities? Cite experiences related by the people in this book to support your opinion.

Essay Topic 2

The author ends the accounts with conversations with children about the long-term effects of the bomb on the children's views about the world and the future. In your paper, discuss the difference the existence of the bomb has made in young people's attitudes about life.

Essay Topic 3

Those who volunteered to involve themselves in the war against the fascist dictator in Spain, Franco, were designated PAFs - premature anti-fascists - by the war department and designated as unfit for active duty. If fascism is evil, is it possible to fight it prematurely? What do the PAFs believe would have been the result for the world if Franco had been defeated? In your essay, give your opinion about the PAFs and support your opinion with data from the text.

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