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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fate of the Survivors.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the ship on which most foreign diplomats leave Nanking right before it falls to the Japanese?
(a) USS Augusta.
(b) HMS Fowey.
(c) HMS Hastings.
(d) USS Panay.

2. Chang states in "Six Weeks of Terror" that one of the Japanese military leaders is known as "the masked shogun" because information about this person is scarce. To which leader does she refer?
(a) Yanagawa.
(b) Matsui.
(c) Nakajima.
(d) Asaka.

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

4. After John Rabe's death, his family finally publishes his diary. It is covered by world media on what date?
(a) July 27, 1874.
(b) May 9, 1958.
(c) December 12, 1996.
(d) October 4, 1982.

5. George Fitch's daughter states that her father is so traumatized after the Rape of Nanking that what frequently occurs?
(a) Nightmares.
(b) Amnesia.
(c) Hallucinations.
(d) Crying fits.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Nanking Safety Zone," which individual does Chang first discuss?

2. "The Fate of the Survivors" states that many of the victims of Nanking continue to suffer all BUT WHICH of the following?

3. Which individual does Chang discuss third in "The Nanking Safety Zone" chapter?

4. In "Six Weeks of Terror," what is the primary Japanese strategy for the invasion of Nanking?

5. According to Chang in "Six Weeks of Terror," what happens to the Japanese war criminals after Nanking?

(see the answer key)

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