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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Acknowledgments.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most of the Zone leaders have no bodyguard experience, and yet they accomplish all BUT WHICH of the following actions anyway?
(a) Keeping young girls from being kidnapped.
(b) Rescuing women from rapists.
(c) Jumping in front of cannons and machine guns.
(d) Pulling men away from execution sites.

2. Which of the following women helps Chang find the descendants of John Rabe?
(a) Susan Rabiner.
(b) Nancy Tong.
(c) Barbara Masin.
(d) Martha Begemann.

3. What mood does the commander of Nanking find when he arrives at the river dock?
(a) Abandoned boats.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Bedlam.
(d) Discipline.

4. Who is the final person Chang thanks in the Acknowledgments?
(a) Husband.
(b) Survivors.
(c) Parents.
(d) Editor.

5. In 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) begins trials in Tokyo. How long do those trials last?
(a) Four months.
(b) Two and a half years.
(c) One year.
(d) Six and a half years.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what problem can most of the damage in Nanking be attributed in the, "The Occupation of Nanking" chapter?

2. Which of the following women loans Chang materials from a documentary she filmed?

3. In comparison to Germany, what percentage of war reparations has Japan paid the victims of Nanking?

4. What is the geographical area mentioned as the main site of the Japanese/Chinese conflict at the time Nanking fell?

5. What can be considered ironic about John Rabe as a defender of the Safety Zone?

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