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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mr. Masakazu Fujii doing when the bomb drops?
(a) He has just sat down to read the paper on the porch.
(b) He has just sat down to drink a cup of coffee on the porch.
(c) He has just begun to give orders to his nurse.
(d) He has just begun to chat with a patient.

2. At Asano Park, how do the wounded die?
(a) They scream in pain.
(b) They beg to be treated.
(c) They die quietly.
(d) They complain the whole way through.

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

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

5. What is Miss Toshinki doing when the bomb drops?
(a) She has just approached her boss to ask for a raise.
(b) She has just turned her head to chat with the girl at the next desk.
(c) She has just lifted some papers off her desk.
(d) She has just grabbed a cup of coffee and is heading towards her desk.

6. Why does Dr. Fujii have to get up early on the morning the bomb is dropped?
(a) He has to make breakfast for his children.
(b) He has to see a houseguest off on a train.
(c) He has to tend to newcoming patients.
(d) He has to pack his belongings in preparation to go to the shelter.

7. What is the 20-year-old woman doing when Mr. Tanimoto sees her?
(a) She is trying to feed her dead infant son as if he's alive.
(b) She is bundling her dead infant son to keep him warm.
(c) She is carrying her dead infant daughter in her arms.
(d) She is talking to her dead infant daughter as if she's alive.

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

9. Why does the Jesuit's mission house remain standing after the bombing?
(a) It used to be a shelter.
(b) It was braced and double braced.
(c) Its concrete was extroardinarily thick.
(d) No one knows.

10. What happens to the climate in Asano Park?
(a) Rain smelling like gas starts pouring down.
(b) A whirlwind rips through the park.
(c) Snow begins to fall.
(d) A sandstorm rips through the park.

11. Mrs. Nakamura dresses her children in everything except for...
(a) An overcoat.
(b) Air-raid helmets.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Gloves.

12. What are the huge drops of water falling from the sky?
(a) They are water mixed with fission fragments.
(b) They are water coming from the hoses of firemen fighting the blaze.
(c) They are simply rain.
(d) They are drops of condensed moisture.

13. With whom is Miss Sasaki laid on a large sheet under the rain?
(a) She is laid with three children.
(b) She is laid with four other wounded, two men and two women.
(c) She is laid with two other wounded people, a man and a woman.
(d) She is laid with one other person.

14. When abnormally large drops of rain fall on the people at Asano Park, what does someone shout?
(a) "The Americans are dropping gasoline."
(b) "The government is going to save us."
(c) "The Americans are dropping some kind of poison."
(d) "More B-29s!"

15. What nationality is Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge?
(a) French.
(b) American.
(c) Belgian.
(d) German.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Japanese call the B-29?

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

3. Who does Dr. Terufimi Sasaki live with?

4. In Chapter 2, why does Mr. Tanimoto run back to a hillock in the rayon man's garden?

5. Mr. Tanimoto carries water from the river to the people, an act which...

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