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Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mrs. Nakamura's husband die?
(a) He has a heart attack.
(b) He dies while serving in the army.
(c) He commits suicide.
(d) He is killed in a car accident.

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

3. What did those who were burnt beg for?
(a) Water.
(b) Help.
(c) Food.
(d) A doctor.

4. Where does Dr. Sasaki work?
(a) A private clinic.
(b) The Red Cross Hospital.
(c) Hiroshima Hospital.
(d) The Hiroshima University hospital.

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) "They are human beings."
(c) ""What if I was in their place?"
(d) "God will reward me."

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki?

2. What does the news that was heard on the radio August 15 convey?

3. What does Dr. Sasaki eventually get permission from the Red Cross Hospital to do?

4. What does Mr. Tanaka do as Mr. Tanimoto reads the psalm?

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

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