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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does NOT happen to the people at Asano Park?
(a) Their hair falls off.
(b) They have serious burns.
(c) They vomit.
(d) They die.

4. In Chapter 2, after the bombing, why does Mr. Tanimoto run towards the city when everyone else is running out?
(a) He wants to see if his wife and baby are okay.
(b) He wants to get food for the hungry.
(c) He wants to get some valuables out of his home.
(d) He needs to find doctors to help the wounded.

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

6. Who helps Mrs. Nakamura free the children?
(a) Her neighbor.
(b) She frees them herself.
(c) Dr. Sasaki.
(d) Mr. Tarimoto.

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

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

9. What is Mr. Hatsuyo Nakamura doing when the bomb drops?
(a) She is cooking a meal for her children in the kitchen.
(b) She is watching her five year old from the bedroom window.
(c) She is fixing up her childrens' bedroom.
(d) She is watching a neighbor from her kitchen window.

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

11. What is Miss Toshinki Sasaki's profession?
(a) She is a clerk.
(b) She is a nurse.
(c) She is a librarian.
(d) She is a bookkeeper.

12. 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 wishes he wasn't a doctor so he wouldn't have to attend to anyone.
(c) He is ashamed of his appearance.
(d) He is afraid that he lost all his wealth.

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

14. Mr. Tanimoto carries water from the river to the people, an act which...
(a) Saves a number of people.
(b) He is proud to have been able to do.
(c) Turns out to be a mistake.
(d) He regrets having done.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What nationality is Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge?

3. After being at the park for a while, what becomes the peoples' concern?

4. When abnormally large drops of rain fall on the people at Asano Park, what does someone shout?

5. How many children does Mrs. Hasuyo Nakamura have?

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