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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What impact of Horizon is considered briefly at the end of Chapter 15?
(a) Its impact on contemporary journalistic style.
(b) Its continuing impact.
(c) Its impact on state media.
(d) Its understated impact.

2. What did the average soldiers believe about the meaning of the war?
(a) They had no ideas about it.
(b) They are in full support of it.
(c) They strongly disapprove of it.
(d) They have strong opinions about it.

3. What type of magazine was Horizon?
(a) A political magazine.
(b) A literary journal.
(c) A news journal.
(d) A popular periodical.

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that the author states to have been almost totally marred by high-mindedness during the war?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Reporting.
(c) Prose.
(d) Films.

5. A typical soldier's amount of downtime would best be described as which of the following?
(a) Short and rare.
(b) Scarce.
(c) Inordinate.
(d) Reasonable.

6. How accepting were most soldiers of the media's interpretation of the meaning of the war?
(a) Few believed any of it.
(b) Most secretly believed it for their entire tour.
(c) Most new recruits believed it.
(d) Most believed small parts of it.

7. Public media took its cues from what source?
(a) The executive branch.
(b) State media.
(c) War planners.
(d) Military leaders.

8. Many terms that persisted after the war had what quality?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Patriotic meaning.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Meter.

9. Overall, the media presented the war effort as being which of the following?
(a) An immoral act of aggression.
(b) A struggle to the death.
(c) An unwinnable debacle.
(d) A good-versus-evil apocalypse.

10. How completely did the mainstream media cover events of the war?
(a) They tried hard to tell the whole story.
(b) They covered small pieces from all sides of the story.
(c) Their coverage was irregular and random.
(d) They covered only a small part of the story.

11. Overall, the example that Horizon set was which of the following?
(a) Positive.
(b) Subversive.
(c) Negative.
(d) Unimportant.

12. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that American soldiers were usually portrayed by the media?
(a) Successful.
(b) Constructive.
(c) Happy.
(d) Experienced.

13. What was one innovation in book publishing that came out of the war?
(a) Tight type setting.
(b) Movable type.
(c) Mass publication.
(d) Paper-back books.

14. How did most soldiers regard reading?
(a) They looked down on it.
(b) They loved it as a pastime.
(c) They engaged in it only when there were no alternatives.
(d) They regarded it as pointless.

15. The term "Chad" originated where?
(a) Free France.
(b) England.
(c) America.
(d) Occupied Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were most economies organized after the war began?

2. Who was the editor of Horizon?

3. Overall, the media coverage of the war would best be described as which of the following?

4. What was the impact of the relatively large number of books read by some servicemen during the war?

5. The soldiers' primary sources of information primarily focused on what subject?

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