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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. 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) Government official in China.
(c) President of the Alliance in Memory of Victims.
(d) Worked for the United Nations.

2. According to the Introduction, Africans believe World War II began in which year?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1935.

3. On December 13, 1937, Japanese soldiers are ordered to execute all Chinese prisoners of war for all BUT WHICH of the following reasons?
(a) Food shortage.
(b) Free up space.
(c) Fear of retaliation.
(d) Prevention of guerrilla forces.

4. A historian at the Jiangsu Academy of Social Sciences has compiled the most accurate estimate of how many were killed in Nanking. What figure has he reached?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 201,000.
(c) 227,400.
(d) 106,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How many women does Chang say are raped during the Japanese occupation of Nanking?

3. Decades later, what is still stunning about the way in which the Rape of Nanking was conducted?

4. In "Six Weeks of Horror," Chang states that prior to the war, the population of Nanking is about how many people?

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

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