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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Six Weeks of Terror.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the author first learn about the Rape of Nanking?
(a) As a little girl.
(b) After getting married.
(c) As a teenager.
(d) During college.

2. What motto sums up the mindset that Japanese cadets were taught to adopt?
(a) "A will which knows no defeat."
(b) "The greatest honor is to kill Chinese."
(c) "Japan will rule the world."
(d) "The weak must be destroyed."

3. In the Introduction, the author cites what fact as her primary motivation for writing this book?
(a) Japanese distortion of history.
(b) African massacres.
(c) American ignorance of the massacre.
(d) Chinese indifference to the victims.

4. In what year does China's war with Japan end?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1932.

5. In the Foreword, what is the date given for the fall of Nanking?
(a) October 4.
(b) November 8.
(c) December 13.
(d) December 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality is John Rabe?

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

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

4. According to the Introduction, Europeans date the beginning of World War II in which year?

5. What World War II event has helped the world believe the myth that Japan was a victim and not an instigator?

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