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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Six Weeks of Terror.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kirby mentions in the Foreword that Nanking prompted China to do all BUT WHICH of the following?
(a) Outlast.
(b) Retreat.
(c) Regroup.
(d) Give up.

2. In comparison to Germany, what percentage of war reparations has Japan paid the victims of Nanking?
(a) About 15%.
(b) 120%.
(c) More than 50%.
(d) Less than 1%.

3. Decades later, what is still stunning about the way in which the Rape of Nanking was conducted?
(a) It was limited to the military population.
(b) It was very short.
(c) It went on for so long.
(d) It was a public rampage.

4. According to Chang in "Six Weeks of Terror," what happens to the Japanese war criminals after Nanking?
(a) Protected by the Japanese government.
(b) Fugitives from the law.
(c) Life sentences in jail.
(d) Executed many years ago.

5. What kind of resistance does the Japanese army meet when it gets to Nanking?
(a) Practically nonexistent.
(b) Well-organized.
(c) Not well-organized.
(d) Nearly impossible to match.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the Rape of Nanking, the Japanese outdo all BUT WHICH of the following massacres?

2. 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?

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

4. What motto sums up the mindset that Japanese cadets were taught to adopt?

5. In the Introduction, Ms. Chang quotes which of the following authors as stating that to forget a holocaust is to kill twice?

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