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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year during "The Fate of the Survivors" do seizures and a mental collapse force Robert Wilson to leave Nanking for Santa Barbara, California?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1960.

2. "Judgment Day" states that some of the worst atrocities in Nanking are committed by which man, who dies shortly after Japan's surrender?
(a) Hirota Koki.
(b) Nakajima Kesago.
(c) Matsui Iwane.
(d) Prince Asaka.

3. Which of the following individuals is a cabinet secretary who claims that the rape victims were actually engaged in willful prostitution during "The Forgotten Holocaust"?
(a) Kajiyama Seiroku.
(b) Kim Young-sam.
(c) Murayama Tomiichi.
(d) Hashimoto Ryutaro.

4. Which US President announces on December 13 that he is shocked by the attack on the USS Panay?
(a) Harry Truman.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Calvin Coolidge.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

5. Chang states that her parents are the kind that most people only dream of, and that they are all BUT WHICH of the following?
(a) Passionate.
(b) Inspirational.
(c) Stern.
(d) Wise.

6. When the initial deaths are combined with deaths that occurred later but are related, one can estimate that the Japanese killed about how many Chinese people in total?
(a) 5 million.
(b) 900 thousand.
(c) 19 million.
(d) 600 thousand.

7. By spring of 1938, all BUT WHICH of the following functions have resumed in Nanking?
(a) Running water.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Mail.
(d) Newspapers.

8. Which of the following individuals is appointed to the position of justice minister, gives an interview stating that the Nanking Massacre is a hoax, and is forced to resign in "The Forgotten Holocaust"?
(a) General Nagano Shigeto.
(b) Sakurai Shin.
(c) Okuno Seisuki.
(d) Fujio Masayuki.

9. Which of the following newsreel reporters are NOT on board when the USS Panay is attacked?
(a) Jean Marie Lutes.
(b) Eric Mayell.
(c) Normal Alley.
(d) Sandro Sandri.

10. Which of the following individuals is the director of the Japanese environmental agency who comments that Japan never intended to be aggressive and is forced to retract the statement in "The Forgotten Holocaust"?
(a) General Nagano Shigeto.
(b) Fujio Masayuki.
(c) Sakurai Shin.
(d) Okuno Seisuki.

11. After Nanking, what event is pivotal in the change of relations between the United States and Japan?
(a) Yalta Conference.
(b) Cold War.
(c) Japan's surrender.
(d) IMTFE trials.

12. Chang states that during her visit to Nanking, she discovers that reparations from Japan in what amount would make a huge difference for the survivors?
(a) $100.
(b) $2,000.
(c) $5,000.
(d) $300.

13. During the IMTFE trials, the court determines that what ratio of prisoners of war die under the Japanese?
(a) One in twenty-five.
(b) All.
(c) One in one hundred.
(d) One in three.

14. Which of the following individuals is the Japanese minister of education who kills his career when he states that the Rape of Nanking is "just a part of war" in "The Forgotten Holocaust"?
(a) Okuno Seisuki.
(b) General Nagano Shigeto.
(c) Sakurai Shin.
(d) Fujio Masayuki.

15. After the massacre, what is the estimated financial damage to public property in Nanking?
(a) $140 thousand.
(b) $90 thousand.
(c) $200 million.
(d) $836 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Epilogue states that some scholars explain the horrors in Nanking and other atrocities by a phenomenon known as what?

2. In "The Fate of the Survivors," Chang states that she is able to videotape oral testimony from Nanking survivors during what year?

3. In order to control the population after the massacre, the Japanese routinely use what as payment to the Chinese?

4. Chang's book was helped along by her editor, a woman by the name of what?

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

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