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What Do You Know?
A Radical History Quiz on Antiwar Protest

by Larry Gara and Judith Mahoney Pasternak

1. During which war was the first national draft instituted as a temporary measure?

(A) World War I; (B) the Korean War; (C) the Civil War; (D) the Spanish-American War.

2. What peace group was co-founded by Amber Amundson, widow of a soldier who died in the September 11 attack on the Pentagon?

(A) No More War; (B) Peaceful Tomorrows; (C) Nonviolent Acts; (D) No Revenge.

3. How much money was redirected in the year 2000 from the Pentagon to progressive causes by “peace tax” funds and individual war tax resisters (according to the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee)?

(A) $10,000; (B) $50,000; (C) $100,000; (D) $250,000.

4. What holiday do many U.S. alternative radio stations celebrate by broadcasting Arlo Guthrie’s antidraft epic “Alice’s Restaurant”?

(A) Independence Day; (B) Veteran’s Day; (C) Thanksgiving; (D) Christmas.

5. Who wrote the earliest extant Western play about resisting war?

(A) Aeschylus; (B) Aristophanes; (C) Anonymous; (D) Shakespeare.

6. For which war tax resister(s) did dozens of supporters create a kind of war tax resistance camp in Colrain, MA, to block IRS efforts to seize a home?

(A) Wally and Juanita Nelson; (B) Randy Kehler and Betsy Corner; (C) Maurice McCracken; (D) Ernest and Marion Bromley.

7. Counseling young men on staying out of the draft became a significant form of war resistance during which war?

(A) Vietnam War; (B) World War I; (C) Korean War; (D) Gulf War.

8. Who wrote Women Against the Good War?

(A) Rachel Goossen; (B) Emma Goldman; (C) Bella Abzug; (D) Helen Nearing.

9. In what song did the Hello People tell of going to prison for war resistance?

(A) “How Does It Feel to be Free?”; (B) “This Land is Your Land”; (C) “Anthem”; (D) “White Winged Doves.”

10. For which antiwar group was Dagmar Wilson a spokesperson?

(A) Women Against War; (B) Women’s Strike for Peace; (C) Women for Nonviolence; (D) Women Against the Draft.

11. In what book did Donald Wetzel write of his World War II draft resistance?

(A) Pacifist; (B) My Resistance to the Good War; (C) Jailed for Peace; (D) Jailed for Pacifism.

12. Henry David Thoreau’s refusal to pay war taxes cost him his famous night in Concord Jail. Which war did he refuse to finance?

(A) The Revolutionary War; (B) the Mexican-American War; (C) the War of 1812; (D) the Spanish-American War.

13. Who was the Quaker pacifist tortured for his refusal to obey orders during the Civil War, and whose wartime diary became a peace classic?

(A) Cyrus Pringle; (B) Alfred Love; (C) William Lloyd Garrison; (D) Thomas Garrett.

14. Who was Franz Jagerstatter?

(A) An Austrian pacifist executed for refusing to serve in the German army; (B) a German who tried to assassinate Hitler; (C) a German pacifist who decided to fight for Hitler; (D) an Austrian official who started a peace movement.

15. Who wrote Armies of the Night, an account of an antiwar demonstration at the Pentagon?

(A) Kurt Vonnegut; (B) Robert Lowell; (C) Grace Paley; (D) Norman Mailer.

16. What book about his World War I draft resistance did Howard Moore write when he was 95?

(A) Plowing My Own Furrow; (B) My War on War; (C) A Conchie’s Story; (D) Resisting the Great War.

17. Which World War II resister profiled in the recent film The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It lived in Tanzania after the war and worked for African liberation movements?

(A) Bayard Rustin; (B) Dave Dellinger; (C) Bill Sutherland; (D) Jim Farmer.

18. What imprisoned pacifist has become the symbol for Turkish draft resistance?

(A) Malik Sharif; (B) Osman Murat Ülke; (C) Arif Hikmet Iyidogan; (D) Mehmet Sefa Fersal.

19. Which folk singer was banned from television during the Vietnam War after singing an antiwar song?

(A) Phil Ochs; (B) Ronnie Gilbert; (C) Pete Seeger; (D) Richie Havens.

20. Which folk singer appeared in “FTA,” the traveling cabaret that performed antiwar songs and skits in coffee houses outside U.S. army bases during the Vietnam War?

(A) Holly Near; (B) Joan Baez; (C) Odetta; (D) Bob Dylan.

BONUS QUESTION: “FTA” stood for:

(A) Flee the Army; (B) Fool the Army; (C) Free the Army; (D) Fuck the Army.

Answers will be available in May.

WWII conscientious objector Larry Gara is a history teacher and co-editor, with Lenna Mae Gara, of A Few Small Candles; NVA editor Judith Mahoney Pasternak is the author of several books, most recently A Parent’s Guide to New York City.