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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Foreword mentions that the Rape of Nanking has haunted Chinese-Japanese relations for how many years?
(a) Forty years.
(b) Thirty years.
(c) Ninety years.
(d) Sixty years.

2. According to Kirby, what motivates the Japanese soldiers to behave in such a horrible manner?
(a) Soldiers were unsupervised.
(b) They hated and feared the Chinese.
(c) They were tired of the war.
(d) We may never know.

3. What World War II event has helped the world believe the myth that Japan was a victim and not an instigator?
(a) Holocaust.
(b) Nanking.
(c) Hiroshima.
(d) Pearl Harbor.

4. In the Introduction, the author cites what fact as her primary motivation for writing this book?
(a) American ignorance of the massacre.
(b) Japanese distortion of history.
(c) African massacres.
(d) Chinese indifference to the victims.

5. Shao Tzuping, one of the producers of a documentary on The Rape of Nanking, had served in all BUT WHICH of the following positions?
(a) Government official in China.
(b) Worked for the United Nations.
(c) President of the Alliance in Memory of Victims.
(d) Producer of "Magee's Testament".

Short Answer Questions

1. Ms. Chang informs the reader that the Rape of Nanking is told from all BUT WHICH of the following points of view?

2. During which year does the author say she first realized the Nanking massacre was historically accurate and not simply myth?

3. According to the Introduction, Africans believe World War II began in which year?

4. When Nanking falls, Japanese soldiers round up tens of thousands of Chinese men and commit all BUT WHICH of the following atrocities?

5. According to the Introduction, Europeans date the beginning of World War II in which year?

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