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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fall of Nanking.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Kirby refer when he states that Ms. Chang has used the unimpeachable testimony of third-party observers?
(a) Foreign missionaries and businessmen.
(b) Newspapers and tabloids.
(c) Victims and perpetrators.
(d) Government officials and historians.

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?
(a) Asaka.
(b) Matsui.
(c) Yanagawa.
(d) Nakajima.

3. In what year does China's war with Japan end?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1944.

4. The Foreword states that the occupation of Nanking was supposed to be a turning point for the Japanese in the struggle against which leader's armies?
(a) Nakajima Kesago.
(b) Chiang Kai-shek.
(c) Asaka Yasuhiko.
(d) Tang Sheng-chih.

5. What title does Kirby hold that qualifies him to write the Foreword for Ms. Chang's book?
(a) Professor of Modern Chinese History.
(b) President of Yale University.
(c) President of Princeton.
(d) Professor of Modern Japanese History.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shao Tzuping, one of the producers of a documentary on The Rape of Nanking, had served in all BUT WHICH of the following positions?

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

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

4. According to Ms. Chang, why is the Rape of Nanking not as well known as the Holocaust or Hiroshima?

5. What item has Ms. Chang found, belonging to John Rabe, that is mentioned in the Foreword?

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