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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. A German diplomat reports that many Chinese women commit suicide by jumping into the Yangtze River between 1937 and 1938. Why?
(a) They were pregnant with half-Japanese babies.
(b) Their families could not bear the dishonor.
(c) They could not find work.
(d) Their husbands were angry with them for getting raped.

4. By which decade does the author state in "The Path to Nanking" that Japan had launched an undeclared war on China?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1950s.

5. As discussed in "Six Weeks of Horror," Wu Tienwei believes that the actual death toll in Nanking may be what number?
(a) 200,500.
(b) 340,000.
(c) 110,000.
(d) 150,000.

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

7. In 1938, Foreign Minister Hirota Koki sends a message indicating that, a month after the massacre, the Japanese believe the Nanking death total to be what number?
(a) 300,000.
(b) 90,000.
(c) 204,000.
(d) 15,000.

8. When the Nanking Safety Zone is initially set up, how long does the International Committee intend for it to be open?
(a) A few weeks.
(b) One year.
(c) Six months.
(d) Two days.

9. In "The Fall of Nanking," how many divisions does the commander in charge of Nanking give authority to cross the Yangtze River?
(a) Zero.
(b) One.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

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

11. According to the Introduction, Europeans date the beginning of World War II in which year?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1935.

12. Ms. Chang informs the reader that the Rape of Nanking is told from all BUT WHICH of the following points of view?
(a) American/European observers.
(b) Japanese military.
(c) Chinese victims.
(d) Nazi government.

13. Tuberculosis strikes the first commander of the Japanese military. Who then takes over as the leader of the troops around Nanking?
(a) Asaka.
(b) Nakajima.
(c) Matsui.
(d) Yanagawa.

14. What does the Japanese government do in response to the mass rape committed by soldiers in Nanking?
(a) Reprimand rapists.
(b) Reward rapists.
(c) Set up brothels.
(d) Put more responsible officers on duty.

15. According to the Introduction, Americans think that World War II began in which year?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Kirby refer when he states that Ms. Chang has used the unimpeachable testimony of third-party observers?

2. Kirby mentions in the Foreword that the Rape of Nanking accomplished what in the eyes of the world?

3. The Rape of Nanking was kept quiet by all BUT WHICH of the following countries?

4. By December during the occupation, Chang states that the population of Nanking has fallen to about how many people?

5. What kind of resistance does the Japanese army meet when it gets to Nanking?

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