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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. 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) Greater food production.
(c) Advance into world markets.
(d) Territory expansion.

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

3. Tuberculosis strikes the first commander of the Japanese military. Who then takes over as the leader of the troops around Nanking?
(a) Yanagawa.
(b) Matsui.
(c) Asaka.
(d) Nakajima.

4. 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) Producer of "Magee's Testament".
(b) President of the Alliance in Memory of Victims.
(c) Worked for the United Nations.
(d) Government official in China.

5. For Asian nations, World War II can be dated from which year?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1931.

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. In what year does the Meiji government of Japan send a naval fleet to Korea to force a commerce agreement?

4. Why do the Japanese soldiers generally kill the women they rape after they've finished?

5. According to Kirby, what motivates the Japanese soldiers to behave in such a horrible manner?

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