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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. 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.

2. Why do the Japanese soldiers generally kill the women they rape after they've finished?
(a) So that angry husbands won't know who to blame.
(b) In order to relieve the dishonor for the woman's family.
(c) Rape is officially prohibited by military command.
(d) They don't want to pay the women their fee.

3. For how many years does the conflict between China and Japan last?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Eight years.

4. To which infamous Nazi is Nakajima Kesago compared in the "Six Weeks of Terror" chapter?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Prutzmann.
(c) Himmler.
(d) Eichmann.

5. To whom does the leader of the Nationalists shift the responsibility for defending Nanking after the fall of Shanghai?
(a) Tang Sheng-chih.
(b) Chang Tien-Chun.
(c) Frank Xing.
(d) Chiang Kai-shek.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the Rape of Nanking, the Japanese outdo all BUT WHICH of the following massacres?

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

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

4. A historian at the Jiangsu Academy of Social Sciences has compiled the most accurate estimate of how many were killed in Nanking. What figure has he reached?

5. When Nanking falls, Japanese soldiers round up tens of thousands of Chinese men and commit all BUT WHICH of the following atrocities?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Chang give in the Introduction as to why the Rape of Nanking is not as well known as the Holocaust or other tragic events?

2. According to Kirby, what haunts Chinese-Japanese relations today, and why?

3. In "Six Weeks of Horror," why do the Chinese civilians in Nanking initially believe that the Japanese occupation may not be so bad?

4. What does the author accomplish by referring to Nanking as a "forgotten Holocaust," according to Kirby?

5. Describe Matsui Iwane's reaction to the events in Nanking after he was once again well enough to take command of the soldiers.

6. Japan occupied Nanking for eight years and set up a government of Chinese collaborators. What was that government NOT able to accomplish during those eight years?

7. According to the Introduction, in what two ways was Japan's mindset as it set out to conquer neighboring nations similar to the way Nazi Germany's mindset would be a few years later? How are the two tactics related?

8. According to Chang at the end of "The Nanking Safety Zone," what is chilling about the number of refugees in the Nanking Safety Zone?

9. At what point does the author state that she became aware of the Rape of Nanking, and what caused her to doubt the accuracy of the information with which she had been presented?

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

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