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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. Which Chinese city is known as "the Venice of China" and is completely devastated by the Japanese army?
(a) Shanghai.
(b) Suchow.
(c) Nanking.
(d) Sungchiang.

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

3. In which year does a group of officers launch a coup d'etat in Tokyo that kills the Prime Minister?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1934.

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) Government official in China.
(d) Worked for the United Nations.

5. "The Path to Nanking" states that Japan's golden era of prosperity comes to an end during which decade?
(a) 1890s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1930s.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year does Japan withdraw from the League of Nations?

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

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

5. Kirby mentions in the Foreword that the Rape of Nanking accomplished what in the eyes of the world?

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