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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 - 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Japanese troops were typically stereotyped as being what?
(a) Untrustworthy.
(b) Ignorant.
(c) Poor shots.
(d) Courageous.

2. Which of the following does the author not list as a cause of the increasing lack of individuality with which solders were treated?
(a) Huge numbers of casualties.
(b) Military training.
(c) Constant flow of reinforcements.
(d) The ideological nature of the war.

3. Most soldiers believed that the meaning and purpose of the war was which of the following?
(a) Defeating fascism.
(b) Nothing definable.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Ideology.

4. The media tended to do what with negative reports from the war?
(a) Forget them.
(b) Cover them thoroughly.
(c) Deny them.
(d) Report them quietly.

5. A blunder that causes one force to misidentify another, whether it be friendly or hostile, is called what?
(a) A target acquisition error.
(b) A recognition error.
(c) An identification failure.
(d) An intel-reconnaissance failure.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did advertisers change their strategies during the war?

2. Even with advanced bombsights, bombs would routinely land how far away from their targets?

3. How did much of the American public react to initial reports of violence, chaos and casualty figures?

4. The drinking among servicemen when alcohol was freely available would best be described as which of the following?

5. Most hazing would best be described as what?

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