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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. Approximately how many Chinese civilians and former soldiers are killed during the mass execution near Mufu Mountain?
(a) 12,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 104,000.
(d) 57,000.

2. After Minnie Vautrin returns to the United States, she repeatedly attempts suicide. On what date does she finally succeed in ending her life?
(a) July 9, 1940.
(b) April 22, 1943.
(c) October 3, 1945.
(d) May 14, 1941.

3. 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) Rape is officially prohibited by military command.
(c) In order to relieve the dishonor for the woman's family.
(d) They don't want to pay the women their fee.

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

5. 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) 1940.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1938.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Nanking, what event is pivotal in the change of relations between the United States and Japan?

2. After John Rabe's death, his family finally publishes his diary. It is covered by world media on what date?

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

4. George Fitch's daughter states that her father is so traumatized after the Rape of Nanking that what frequently occurs?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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