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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Forgotten Holocause: A Second Rape.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After his trial, Hisao is executed in a manner that many of the Nanking survivors believe to be much more humane than anything he'd done to his victims. How is Hisao executed?
(a) Lethal injection.
(b) Firing squad.
(c) Beheading.
(d) Drowning.

2. Why do the Japanese soldiers generally kill the women they rape after they've finished?
(a) So that angry husbands won't know who to blame.
(b) They don't want to pay the women their fee.
(c) In order to relieve the dishonor for the woman's family.
(d) Rape is officially prohibited by military command.

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

4. Toward the end of "The Nanking Safety Zone," Chang states that the Safety Zone holds about how many refugees?
(a) Three to four hundred.
(b) Six to eight hundred.
(c) Nine to twelve hundred.
(d) Two to three hundred thousand.

5. How many women does Chang say are raped during the Japanese occupation of Nanking?
(a) Between fifteen and eighteen thousand.
(b) Between twenty and eighty thousand.
(c) Between five and six thousand.
(d) Between three and four hundred.

Short Answer Questions

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

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 "The Nanking Safety Zone," which individual does Chang discuss second?

4. In the Foreword, what is the date given for the fall of Nanking?

5. 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?

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