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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Noiseless Flash.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge doing when the bomb falls?
(a) He is praying while lying on a cot.
(b) He is writing a letter while lying on a cot.
(c) He is lying on a cot reading a Jesuit magazine.
(d) He is sleeping on a cot.

2. How is Miss Sasaki related to Dr. Sasaki?
(a) She is his niece.
(b) She is his sister-in-law.
(c) There is no relation.
(d) She is his cousin.

3. Before the bomb falls, what does everyone in Hiroshima expect to suffer?
(a) A hydrogen bomb.
(b) Massive B-29 raids.
(c) The atomic bomb.
(d) Poison gas.

4. Why is Mrs. Nakamura's neighbor tearing down his house before the bombing?
(a) He wants to build a small shelter instead.
(b) He wants to build a new home.
(c) It lies in the path of an air-raid-defense fire lane.
(d) It lies in a dangerous spot.

5. On what day is the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) August 26, 1945.
(b) August 16, 1945.
(c) August 1, 1945.
(d) August 6, 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Miss Toshiko Sasaki wake up at three A.M. the morning the bomb is dropped?

2. What do people hear prior to the bomb dropping?

3. Almost no one in Hiroshima recalls...

4. How does Mrs. Nakamura's husband die?

5. What did Mrs. Nakamura's deceased husband do for a living?

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