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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nationality is John Rabe?
(a) Chinese.
(b) German.
(c) Japanese.
(d) English.

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

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

4. How long does Japan initially believe it will take to conquer mainland China?
(a) Three months.
(b) Six months.
(c) One year.
(d) Two weeks.

5. By December during the occupation, Chang states that the population of Nanking has fallen to about how many people?
(a) Three million.
(b) Four thousand.
(c) Half a million.
(d) Fifty thousand.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In "Six Weeks of Horror," Chang states that Japanese soldiers use all BUT WHICH of the following methods to exterminate Chinese civilians?

4. In 1938, Foreign Minister Hirota Koki sends a message indicating that, a month after the massacre, the Japanese believe the Nanking death total to be what number?

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

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