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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is one of the reasons that people pour into Asano Park?
(a) They believe that they will have all the food and water they need there.
(b) The park was too far away from Hiroshima to be affected by the bombings.
(c) They believe that if another bomb hits, they could hide behind the rocks and trees in the garden.
(d) They believe that if the Americans come back, they would bomb only buildings.

3. What does Mrs. Nakamura do with the sewing machine prior to leaving her home?
(a) She hides it in the closet.
(b) She buries it under some furniture.
(c) She hides it in the cement tank of water in front of her house.
(d) She leaves it where it is.

4. What does Mrs. Nakamura do as soon as everything turns white?
(a) She hides beneath the bed.
(b) She runs outside.
(c) She kneels down and covers her head.
(d) She turns towards her children.

5. Why does Dr. Fujii like to read the Osaka News?
(a) He plans to move there after the war.
(b) His clinic is in Osaka.
(c) The Osaka News delivers the most accurate news.
(d) His wife lives there.

6. What falls on Miss Sasaki's legs after the bomb drops?
(a) An office desk.
(b) A bookcase.
(c) A table.
(d) A statue.

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

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

9. Early in the afternoon, what sweeps into Asano Park?
(a) Fire.
(b) Dust.
(c) Bombing.
(d) Rocks.

10. Why does Miss Toshiko Sasaki wake up at three A.M. the morning the bomb is dropped?
(a) She hears the warning sirens.
(b) There is extra housework to do.
(c) She had a nightmare.
(d) She has a long commute to work.

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

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

13. What do the Japanese call the B-29?
(a) Mr. Bomb.
(b) Mr. B.
(c) Mr. 29.
(d) Mr. B-29.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dr. Sasaki work?

2. At Asano Park, how do the wounded die?

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

4. When a roar of approaching planes is heard at Asano Park, the baker commands people to take off garments having what color?

5. What did Mrs. Nakamura's deceased husband do for a living?

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