1. Chang states in "Six Weeks of Terror" that one of the Japanese military leaders is known as "the masked shogun" because information about this person is scarce. To which leader does she refer?
(a) Matsui.
(b) Yanagawa.
(c) Asaka.
(d) Nakajima.

2. Why do the Japanese soldiers generally kill the women they rape after they've finished?
(a) In order to relieve the dishonor for the woman's family.
(b) Rape is officially prohibited by military command.
(c) They don't want to pay the women their fee.
(d) So that angry husbands won't know who to blame.

3. On December 13, 1937, Japanese soldiers are ordered to execute all Chinese prisoners of war for all BUT WHICH of the following reasons?
(a) Food shortage.
(b) Prevention of guerrilla forces.
(c) Free up space.
(d) Fear of retaliation.

4. When news of John Rabe's situation reaches China, the Nanking survivors raise how much money in US dollars to help him?
(a) $500.
(b) $100,000.
(c) $6,000.
(d) $2,000.

5. After John Rabe's death, his family finally publishes his diary. It is covered by world media on what date?
(a) October 4, 1982.
(b) May 9, 1958.
(c) December 12, 1996.
(d) July 27, 1874.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Fate of the Survivors," during what year does Lewis Smythe leave his job at Nanking University for Lexington Theological Seminary in Kentucky?

2. Which Chinese city is known as "the Venice of China" and is completely devastated by the Japanese army?

3. Most of the Zone leaders have no bodyguard experience, and yet they accomplish all BUT WHICH of the following actions anyway?

4. What kind of resistance does the Japanese army meet when it gets to Nanking?

5. What does the Japanese government do in response to the mass rape committed by soldiers in Nanking?

(see the answer key)

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