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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Foreword mentions that the Rape of Nanking has haunted Chinese-Japanese relations for how many years?
(a) Forty years.
(b) Sixty years.
(c) Thirty years.
(d) Ninety years.

2. In "Six Weeks of Horror," Chang states that Japanese soldiers use all BUT WHICH of the following methods to exterminate Chinese civilians?
(a) Death by starvation.
(b) Death by ice.
(c) Death by fire.
(d) Death by dogs.

3. 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?
(a) Territory expansion.
(b) Advance into world markets.
(c) Immigration.
(d) Greater food production.

4. The fall of Shanghai is a particularly hard blow to the leader of the Nationalists. Who is he?
(a) Tang Sheng-chih.
(b) Frank Xing.
(c) Chiang Kai-shek.
(d) Chang Tien-Chun.

5. Which of the following people is alone in advocating a strong defense for Nanking in November of 1937?
(a) Chang Tien-Chun.
(b) Tang Sheng-chih.
(c) Chiang Kai-shek.
(d) Frank Xing.

6. In "The Fall of Nanking," Chang states that Nanking has been occupied by foreign armies how many times?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Eight.

7. What event does the author mention in the Introduction that prompted many Nanking survivors to speak out about the massacre?
(a) Pacification of Manchukuo.
(b) Tiananmen Square.
(c) Long March.
(d) Opium War.

8. To which atmosphere could the elementary schools of Japan best be compared?
(a) Home school.
(b) Park.
(c) Military.
(d) College.

9. In the Introduction, Ms. Chang quotes which of the following authors as stating that to forget a holocaust is to kill twice?
(a) Akutagawa Ryunosuke.
(b) George Santayana.
(c) Shao Tzuping.
(d) Elie Wiesel.

10. Approximately how many Chinese civilians and former soldiers are killed during the mass execution near Mufu Mountain?
(a) 104,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 57,000.
(d) 12,000.

11. What is the geographical area mentioned as the main site of the Japanese/Chinese conflict at the time Nanking fell?
(a) Hunan Gorge.
(b) Sichuan Valley.
(c) Suzhou Plains.
(d) Yangtze Valley.

12. A German diplomat reports that many Chinese women commit suicide by jumping into the Yangtze River between 1937 and 1938. Why?
(a) Their husbands were angry with them for getting raped.
(b) Their families could not bear the dishonor.
(c) They were pregnant with half-Japanese babies.
(d) They could not find work.

13. What does the Japanese government do in response to the mass rape committed by soldiers in Nanking?
(a) Set up brothels.
(b) Reward rapists.
(c) Reprimand rapists.
(d) Put more responsible officers on duty.

14. In the Introduction, the author cites what fact as her primary motivation for writing this book?
(a) Chinese indifference to the victims.
(b) American ignorance of the massacre.
(c) African massacres.
(d) Japanese distortion of history.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In which year does a group of officers launch a coup d'etat in Tokyo that kills the Prime Minister?

2. In what year does Japan withdraw from the League of Nations?

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

4. On what date does the commander who is left in charge of Nanking receive orders from the leader of the Nationalists to abandon the city?

5. Who is the Japanese imperial army major who writes a report of confession while awaiting trial for his crimes?

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