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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through What the World Knew.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first diary leaked out of Nanking is published in all BUT WHICH of the following magazines?
(a) Time.
(b) Newsweek.
(c) Far Eastern.
(d) Reader's Digest.

2. Which individual does Chang discuss third in "The Nanking Safety Zone" chapter?
(a) German merchant.
(b) American missionary professor.
(c) German businessman.
(d) American surgeon.

3. Most of the Zone leaders have no bodyguard experience, and yet they accomplish all BUT WHICH of the following actions anyway?
(a) Pulling men away from execution sites.
(b) Keeping young girls from being kidnapped.
(c) Rescuing women from rapists.
(d) Jumping in front of cannons and machine guns.

4. What event does the author mention in the Introduction that prompted many Nanking survivors to speak out about the massacre?
(a) Long March.
(b) Tiananmen Square.
(c) Pacification of Manchukuo.
(d) Opium War.

5. Which Chinese city is known as "the Venice of China" and is completely devastated by the Japanese army?
(a) Sungchiang.
(b) Nanking.
(c) Suchow.
(d) Shanghai.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the author NOT discover is a published book on the subject of Nanking?

2. According to Ms. Chang, why is the Rape of Nanking not as well known as the Holocaust or Hiroshima?

3. On what date does the commander who is left in charge of Nanking receive orders from the leader of the Nationalists to abandon the city?

4. As "What the World Knew" opens, how does the world know what's happening in Nanking?

5. Approximately how many Chinese civilians and former soldiers are killed during the mass execution near Mufu Mountain?

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