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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. After the Japanese victory at Shanghai, Chinese officials do all BUT WHICH of the following to prepare for possible attacks elsewhere?
(a) Have citizens build bomb shelters.
(b) Order residents to camouflage homes.
(c) Hold practice air-raid drills.
(d) Order civilians out of the cities.

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

5. In "The Path to Nanking," the author states that the Japanese Samurai code of conduct is called what?
(a) Kiyaku.
(b) Bushido.
(c) Masurao.
(d) Konnichiwa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality is John Rabe?

2. According to the Introduction, Americans think that World War II began in which year?

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

4. By which decade does the author state in "The Path to Nanking" that Japan had launched an undeclared war on China?

5. Looting in the Safety Zone makes food so scarce that refugees are forced to eat all BUT WHICH of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the process by which new Japanese soldiers were desensitized.

2. Describe how Tang Shunsan was able to survive his encounter with Japanese soldiers.

3. Describe the broad time line and details of the Rape of Nanking as outlined in the Introduction.

4. What are the responses of Japan and China when Nanking falls, as described by William Kirby in the Foreword?

5. Briefly describe the five methods of torture used by the Japanese soldiers in their attempt to exterminate the population of Nanking.

6. Describe the preparations the Chinese government ordered the citizens to undertake in order to prepare for possible invasions after the fall of Shanghai.

7. Chang states in the Introduction that the Rape of Nanking surpasses many of the world's most barbaric events. To which events does she refer, and why was Nanking worse?

8. Briefly explain the twentieth-century Japanese cultural identity, as detailed in "The Path to Nanking."

9. As discussed in "The Fall of Nanking," what are the reasons historians have found for why Nanking fell in four days with so many Chinese soldiers present to defend the city?

10. Briefly describe Wilhelmina (Minnie) Vautrin's role in the Nanking Safety Zone.

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