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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ms. Chang informs the reader that the Rape of Nanking is told from all BUT WHICH of the following points of view?
(a) Nazi government.
(b) American/European observers.
(c) Chinese victims.
(d) Japanese military.

2. As discussed in "Six Weeks of Horror," Wu Tienwei believes that the actual death toll in Nanking may be what number?
(a) 200,500.
(b) 110,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 340,000.

3. In "The Nanking Safety Zone," which individual does Chang discuss second?
(a) American missionary professor.
(b) German merchant.
(c) German businessman.
(d) American surgeon.

4. In "The Fall of Nanking," how many divisions does the commander in charge of Nanking give authority to cross the Yangtze River?
(a) Zero.
(b) One.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

5. 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?
(a) 300,000.
(b) 204,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 90,000.

6. 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) Jumping in front of cannons and machine guns.
(c) Keeping young girls from being kidnapped.
(d) Rescuing women from rapists.

7. The Rape of Nanking was kept quiet by all BUT WHICH of the following countries?
(a) Germany.
(b) United States.
(c) Republic of China.
(d) People's Republic of China.

8. Looting in the Safety Zone makes food so scarce that refugees are forced to eat all BUT WHICH of the following?
(a) Daisies.
(b) Mushrooms.
(c) Goldenrod.
(d) Dandelions.

9. According to Ms. Chang, why is the Rape of Nanking not as well known as the Holocaust or Hiroshima?
(a) The Japanese killed all the witnesses.
(b) There were not as many deaths.
(c) The victims stayed silent.
(d) The Chinese were ashamed of the incident.

10. During the Rape of Nanking, the Japanese outdo all BUT WHICH of the following massacres?
(a) Christians during Spanish Inquisition.
(b) Timur Lenk at Delhi.
(c) Romans at Carthage.
(d) Stalin in Russia.

11. In what year does Japan withdraw from the League of Nations?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1930.

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

13. What item has Ms. Chang found, belonging to John Rabe, that is mentioned in the Foreword?
(a) Newspaper.
(b) Photographs.
(c) Home videos.
(d) Diary.

14. Decades later, what is still stunning about the way in which the Rape of Nanking was conducted?
(a) It went on for so long.
(b) It was limited to the military population.
(c) It was a public rampage.
(d) It was very short.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. A German diplomat reports that many Chinese women commit suicide by jumping into the Yangtze River between 1937 and 1938. Why?

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

4. In "The Path to Nanking," the author states that the Japanese Samurai code of conduct is called what?

5. To whom does Kirby refer when he states that Ms. Chang has used the unimpeachable testimony of third-party observers?

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