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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dr. Terufumi Sasaki doing when the bomb drops?
(a) He is drawing a blood test from a patient for a Wasserman test.
(b) He is walking along a hospital corridor with a blood specimen for a Wasserman test.
(c) He is collecting blood specimen for a Wasserman test.
(d) He is examining a blood specimen for a Wasserman test.

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

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

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

5. What does Mr. Tanimoto have to keep consciously repeating to himself in order to get all the people across the river?
(a) "It's a great sin to leave them behind."
(b) ""What if I was in their place?"
(c) "God will reward me."
(d) "They are human beings."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Tanimoto take from the five dead men in the river?

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

3. Where does Mrs. Nakamura and her children go to after leaving the park?

4. On August 7th, what radio broadcast announcement do the Japanese make?

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

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