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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Forgotten Holocause: A Second Rape.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his book, Lieutenant Colonel Hashimoto Kingoro wrote that Japan could escape the pressures of surplus population in all BUT WHICH of the following ways?
(a) Immigration.
(b) Advance into world markets.
(c) Greater food production.
(d) Territory expansion.

2. At the end of "The Forgotten Holocaust," Azuma Shiro becomes the first Japanese veteran to apologize for his role in Nanking. During what year does this occur?
(a) 1987.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1953.

3. What motto sums up the mindset that Japanese cadets were taught to adopt?
(a) "The weak must be destroyed."
(b) "A will which knows no defeat."
(c) "The greatest honor is to kill Chinese."
(d) "Japan will rule the world."

4. After the massacre, the Japanese create a new government in Nanking. On what date is the Nanking Self-Government Committee created?
(a) December 28.
(b) January 20.
(c) January 1.
(d) February 6.

5. By what time during 1938 does "The Occupation of Nanking" say the massacre is over?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Winter.
(d) Fall.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what problem can most of the damage in Nanking be attributed in the, "The Occupation of Nanking" chapter?

3. After John Rabe's death, his family finally publishes his diary. It is covered by world media on what date?

4. Chang says in "The Fall of Nanking" that which of her own family members barely manage to stay together while evacuating Nanking?

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

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