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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people in Hiroshima are killed by the atomic bomb?
(a) A hundred thousand.
(b) Two hundred thousand.
(c) Two hundred and fifty thousand.
(d) Three hundred thousand.

2. How many patients does Dr. Fujii have prior to the bombing?
(a) 2.
(b) 26.
(c) 7.
(d) 15.

3. What is Miss Sasaki's neighbor at the factory mistaken about?
(a) She thinks it's safer to stay put.
(b) She thinks she will bleed to death.
(c) She thinks her back is broken.
(d) She thinks no one will come save them.

4. What does Mr. Tanimoto take from the five dead men in the river?
(a) He takes their boat.
(b) He takes their food.
(c) He takes their glasses.
(d) He takes their wallets.

5. What does Mr. Fukai, the Secretary of the diocese, keep saying while he's being rescued?
(a) "I must find my family."
(b) "Leave me here to die."
(c) "I don't want to die."
(d) "I must save this building."

6. 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.

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

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

9. Prior to the bombing, what happens to Hiroshima's population?
(a) It suffers poverty due to the war.
(b) It becomes absent of many professionals who flee the city.
(c) It is reduced due to several evacuation programs.
(d) It is increased to help clear the fire lanes.

10. What it something Dr. Fujii feel despite the misery all around him?
(a) He is positive that most of the wounded will survive.
(b) He is afraid that he lost all his wealth.
(c) He wishes he wasn't a doctor so he wouldn't have to attend to anyone.
(d) He is ashamed of his appearance.

11. Who does Dr. Terufimi Sasaki live with?
(a) His mother.
(b) His brother.
(c) His father.
(d) His cousin.

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

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

14. For more than a month, Dr. Sasaki works...
(a) With a badly injured arm.
(b) Without having any glasses.
(c) Wearing someone else's glasses.
(d) With a badly injured leg.

15. What did Mrs. Nakamura's deceased husband do for a living?
(a) He was a government official.
(b) He was a tailor.
(c) He was a surgeon.
(d) He was a clerk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the climate in Asano Park?

2. What is Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge doing when the bomb falls?

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

4. Early in the afternoon, what sweeps into Asano Park?

5. Before the bomb falls, what does everyone in Hiroshima expect to suffer?

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