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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. "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) Matsui Iwane.
(c) Prince Asaka.
(d) Nakajima Kesago.

2. One of the most high-profile trials described in chapter eight is for Tani Hisao. What military position does Hisao hold during the Rape of Nanking?
(a) Lieutenant General of 6th division.
(b) Major General of 9th division.
(c) Second Lieutenant of 4th division.
(d) Colonel of 5th division.

3. After the War Crimes committee is created, trials for class B and C war criminals begin when?
(a) March 1945.
(b) September 1944.
(c) December 1945.
(d) August 1946.

4. The Epilogue states that some scholars explain the horrors in Nanking and other atrocities by a phenomenon known as what?
(a) Transfer of oppression.
(b) Master race mentality.
(c) Uncontrollable rage.
(d) Mob mentality.

5. To what number is the population of northern China reduced after the terror campaign in 1941?
(a) 16 million.
(b) 105 million.
(c) 44 million.
(d) 25 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "What the World Knew," Chang presents diary or letter responses to the Japanese propaganda from all BUT WHICH of the following individuals?

2. Japanese soldiers break into Nanking University Hospital after the massacre and steal all BUT WHICH of the following from nurses?

3. Prince Mikasa Takahito wrote a confessional report about Japanese atrocities that was buried for decades. In what year does Takahito's report emerge?

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

5. In 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) begins trials in Tokyo. How long do those trials last?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly describe the International Military Tribunal for the Far East trials.

2. What information and assistance do the surviving American and European eyewitnesses and their families give Chang?

3. Why do the Japanese encourage narcotic use among the Chinese?

4. Briefly describe the fate of John Rabe after the Nanking massacre.

5. Why are the leaders of the International Safety Zone Committee particularly well-suited to tell the real story of Nanking?

6. How does the outside world get information on the events in Nanking during "What the World Knew"?

7. Briefly describe what happened to Robert Wilson after the Nanking massacre.

8. Explain Matsui Iwane's philosophy about China as discussed in the Epilogue.

9. Today, the Japanese government takes the position that any wartime reparation issues were dealt with in the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1952. Why is this position erroneous?

10. Describe the postwar differences between Japan and Germany that have allowed the Rape of Nanking to go largely unnoticed while the Holocaust is acknowledged world wide.

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