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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the people attribute their sickness of nausea and vomiting to?
(a) The food they'd eaten.
(b) The terrible smell of the bomb.
(c) Gas the Americans dropped.
(d) The water they'd drank.

2. What does Mr. Tanaka do as Mr. Tanimoto reads the psalm?
(a) He loses consciesness.
(b) He dies.
(c) He asks him to stop.
(d) He vomits.

3. What happens to the Kataoka children, sister and brother, whom Father Kleinsorge finds?
(a) They die.
(b) It is discovered that their entire family is dead.
(c) They are returned to their mother.
(d) They have to be separated.

4. On August 15, who publicly speaks for the first time in Japanese history over the radio?
(a) Hirohito, the Emperor Tenno.
(b) The American president.
(c) The president of Japan.
(d) The prime minister of Japan.

5. What is the condition of one of the wounded people lying beside Miss Sasaki?
(a) A soldier's eye sockets are hollow from the burns.
(b) A woman has lost her breast.
(c) An old woman is nearly dead.
(d) A man has lost his arm.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Miss Toshinki Sasaki's profession?

3. On what day is the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?

4. Why isn't Mr. Tanimoto able to bring a doctor to Asano Park?

5. Why does Dr. Fujii have to get up early on the morning the bomb is dropped?

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