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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Kirby, what motivates the Japanese soldiers to behave in such a horrible manner?
2. When Nanking falls, Japanese soldiers round up tens of thousands of Chinese men and commit all BUT WHICH of the following atrocities?
3. In what year does the Meiji government of Japan send a naval fleet to Korea to force a commerce agreement?
4. According to the Introduction, Europeans date the beginning of World War II in which year?
5. After completing their research, authors James Yin and Shi Young believe the Nanking death toll may be what number?
Short Essay Questions
1. Briefly describe John Rabe's role in the Nanking Safety Zone.
2. In the Introduction, Chang states that various countries view World War II as having different start dates. To what can this disagreement be attributed?
3. In what way can we now think of Nanking as a different sort of turning point, according to Kirby?
4. What was Japan's isolationist foreign policy intended to accomplish, and in what ways did that policy backfire?
5. Describe how Tang Shunsan was able to survive his encounter with Japanese soldiers.
6. At what point does the author state that she became aware of the Rape of Nanking, and what caused her to doubt the accuracy of the information with which she had been presented?
7. Describe the methods used by the Japanese army to subdue the larger Chinese population of Nanking, as described in "Six Weeks of Terror."
8. As discussed in "Six Weeks of Horror," why will the world never fully understand the psychic toll taken on the women of Nanking, despite best efforts to accurately count the number of rapes?
9. Briefly explain the twentieth-century Japanese cultural identity, as detailed in "The Path to Nanking."
10. Describe the broad time line and details of the Rape of Nanking as outlined in the Introduction.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
To what factors can the behavior of Chinese soldiers and officers be attributed during the abandonment of Nanking? What mentality explains the soldiers' disorganized efforts to leave the city, and their attempts to disguise themselves so as not be recognized as soldiers?
Essay Topic 2
Emperor Hirohito and his family were granted immunity for all wartime actions in exchange for Japan's surrender. In a well-developed essay, discuss whether or not this action was justified. Use supporting material from the text to analyze how much the emperor knew of the events in Nanking, and to what extent other members of the imperial family should or should not have been held accountable.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the process by which Japanese soldiers learned to view the Chinese as less than human. At what point did this conditioning begin, and what cultural factors enabled it to be so successful?
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