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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through What the World Knew.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most of the Zone leaders have no bodyguard experience, and yet they accomplish all BUT WHICH of the following actions anyway?
(a) Rescuing women from rapists.
(b) Jumping in front of cannons and machine guns.
(c) Pulling men away from execution sites.
(d) Keeping young girls from being kidnapped.

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

3. To which infamous Nazi is Nakajima Kesago compared in the "Six Weeks of Terror" chapter?
(a) Eichmann.
(b) Prutzmann.
(c) Himmler.
(d) Hitler.

4. One of the diary writers in "What the World Knew" is able to take several reels of film and smuggle them out of Nanking on which date?
(a) January 19.
(b) November 26.
(c) December 16.
(d) March 20.

5. According to the Introduction, Africans believe World War II began in which year?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the leader of the Nationalists shift the responsibility for defending Nanking after the fall of Shanghai?

2. In the Introduction, the author cites what fact as her primary motivation for writing this book?

3. As "What the World Knew" opens, how does the world know what's happening in Nanking?

4. Toward the end of "The Nanking Safety Zone," Chang states that the Safety Zone holds about how many refugees?

5. What World War II event has helped the world believe the myth that Japan was a victim and not an instigator?

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