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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Nakamura children react during the night at Asano Park?
(a) They are interested in everything that happens.
(b) They are frightnened by what is happening.
(c) They cry throughout the night.
(d) They cough and vomit throughout the night.

2. What does the women holding the dead baby keep requesting of Mr. Tanimoto?
(a) To revive her daughter.
(b) To get her a doctor.
(c) To find her husband.
(d) To find her son.

3. As symptoms of radiation disease reveal themselves, it becomes clear that many of them resemble the effects of...
(a) An overdose of x-rays.
(b) An overdose of electromagnetic spectrum.
(c) An overdose of electromagnetic radiation.
(d) An overdose of gamma rays.

4. On August 7th, what radio broadcast announcement do the Japanese make?
(a) "The bomb used by the Americans had two thousand times the blast power of the British Grand Slam, which is the largest bomb yet used in the history of wartime."
(b) "It is believed that a new type of bomb was used on Hiroshima. The details are being investigated."
(c) "The bomb used by the Americans had more power than twenty thousand tons of TNT."
(d) "The bomb has left few survivors."

5. What is Miss Sasaki told before she is lifted to a relief station?
(a) She is told that her father, mother, and baby brother are dead.
(b) She is told that her whole family is dead.
(c) She is told that her whole family has survived.
(d) She is told that her parents survived, but her siblings are dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ends up happening to Mr. Fukai, the Japanese secretary of the diocese?

2. What does the doctor tell Mother Superior about Father Kleinsorge?

3. On August 15, who publicly speaks for the first time in Japanese history over the radio?

4. What happens to Mr. Tanimoto's health a few weeks after the bombing?

5. In Chapter 3, what gesture makes Father Kleinsorge a little hysterical and want to cry suddenly?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Dr. Fujii doing a month after the bombing?

2. Who does Mr. Tanimoto keep trying to avoid at the park?

3. How does Miss Sasaki spend the first night of the bombing?

4. What makes Father Kleinsorge a little hysterical, wanting to cry after feeling thirsty in the dreadful heat?

5. How does President Truman describe the atomic bomb during his radio announcement?

6. What does Mr. Tanimoto see when he awakes in the first light of dawn, the first morning after the bombing?

7. What are the views of the people of Hiroshima about the ethics of using the bomb?

8. What are the Japanese physicists' concern about the bomb and what do they do about it?

9. What affect does Father Kleinsorge's answers to Miss Sasaki's questions about life have on her health?

10. What does Miss Sasaki think about while at the hospital and why?

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