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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does one of the two girls who Mr. Tanimoto rescues keep complaining about?
(a) She complains that she is cold.
(b) She complains that she is hot.
(c) She complains that she is very nauseous.
(d) She complains that her burns are too painful.

2. What does Mrs. Nakamura do as soon as everything turns white?
(a) She turns towards her children.
(b) She kneels down and covers her head.
(c) She runs outside.
(d) She hides beneath the bed.

3. Why does Miss Toshiko Sasaki wake up at three A.M. the morning the bomb is dropped?
(a) She has a long commute to work.
(b) She had a nightmare.
(c) There is extra housework to do.
(d) She hears the warning sirens.

4. What do the six survivors in Hiroshima, who John Hersey writes about, still wonder?
(a) They wonder whether the atomic bomb will ever be used again.
(b) They wonder if their lives will ever be normal again.
(c) They wonder why they lived while so many others died.
(d) They wonder why the Americnas used such a bomb on them.

5. What does Mr. Tanimoto do after the people at the park are promised to receive help?
(a) He falls asleep, exhausted.
(b) He tries to keep everyone in the park calm and collective.
(c) He helps settle people in for the night.
(d) He resumes ferrying the wounded across the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Mrs. Nakamura's neighbor tearing down his house before the bombing?

2. Why is it several days before the survivors of Hiroshima know about the bomb dropped on Hiroshima?

3. Who helps Mrs. Nakamura free the children?

4. What are the people at Asano Park promised by a young officer?

5. What did those who were burnt beg for?

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