Wartime Manners Quiz

Should you learn to recognize the insignia of the different branches of service?

Mind Your Manners

Test your knowledge of correct social usage by answering the following questions, then checking against the authoritative answers below:

1. Is it manners to criticize he slacks or overalls worn by women in defense corps?

2. Should you learn to recognize the insignia of the different branches of service?

3. Should you use the phrase “just a private”?

4. Should you criticize the busy mother of small children for not doing war work outside the home?

5. Should you wonder out loud why such and such a young man isn't in the army?

What would you do if:

You are in a theater where the Star-Spangled Banner is played as a finale-

(a) Get up and leave?

(b) Stand the whole time it is being played?

 

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ANSWERS

1. No. They are doing important work and their clothes are suitable for that work.

2. Yes. If you don't already know.

3. No. Don’t belittle a private by saying “just a private.”

4. No.

5. No.

Better "What Would You Do" solution-(b).

 

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