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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who eventually comes looking for Miss Sasaki and finds her?
(a) Her siblings.
(b) Her friends.
(c) Father Nagatsuka.
(d) Mr. Fukai.

2. What in particular causes Miss Sasaki unease as she looks at the ruins of Hiroshima?
(a) The amount of peoples' ashes piled on the ground.
(b) The sight of dead naked children stacked together.
(c) The sight of grass and flowers among the ruins.
(d) The large number of mice roaming the streets.

3. What does Dr. Sasaki eventually get permission from the Red Cross Hospital to do?
(a) To go to his mother's home in Mukaihara.
(b) To take a two-day break from the Red Cross Hospital.
(c) To transfer to another hospital.
(d) To sleep for seventeen hours.

4. What does Dr. Fujii do once his injuries begin to make progress?
(a) He offers to assist patients at the Red Cross Hospital.
(b) He keeps to himself.
(c) He leaves the city to go live with relatives.
(d) He treats refugees who come to him from the neighborhood.

5. As symptoms of radiation disease reveal themselves, it becomes clear that many of them resemble the effects of...
(a) An overdose of gamma rays.
(b) An overdose of x-rays.
(c) An overdose of electromagnetic radiation.
(d) An overdose of electromagnetic spectrum.

6. What does Dr. Fujii offer the Jesuit when they find him at eleven o'clock in the morning?
(a) Wine.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Rice.

7. In trying to rebuild the city, what is the Planning Conference in Hiroshima at a loss to?
(a) They don't know what importance could Hiroshima now have.
(b) They don't know hwo to get people to move back into the city.
(c) They don't know how they would rebuild the city.
(d) They worry about the costs involved to rebuild the city.

8. In Chapter 3, what gesture makes Father Kleinsorge a little hysterical and want to cry suddenly?
(a) A Japanese man hands him a cup of water.
(b) A Japanese woman offers him bandages for his wounds.
(c) A Japanese child offers him a rice cake.
(d) A Japanese woman hands him tea leaves to chew on.

9. What does the doctor tell Father Kleinsorge at the hospital?
(a) "There isn't a cure for your symptoms."
(b) "You'll have to stay here at least six months."
(c) "You'll be out of here in two weeks."
(d) "You have to go to another hospital."

10. What does the news that was heard on the radio August 15 convey?
(a) Japan still has a chance to win the war.
(b) The war will continue.
(c) The war has just begun.
(d) The war is over.

11. By February 1946, what condition is Miss Sasaki in when Father Kleinsorge visits her?
(a) She is getting sicker everyday.
(b) She has grown more and more depressed and morbid.
(c) She is beginning to walk around and show signs of strength.
(d) She is ready to start a new life.

12. What ends up happening to Father Kleinsorge's wounds a few weeks after the bombing?
(a) They open wider and are swollen and inflamed.
(b) They are healed with proper medication.
(c) They are healed with no medication whatsoever.
(d) They become infected and require surgery.

13. What does Miss Sasaki seem to draw physical strength from?
(a) Father Kleinsorge's answers about life.
(b) A family member showing up at the hospital.
(c) Her wounded leg returning to normal.
(d) The patients who are worse off than she is.

14. What does one of the two girls who Mr. Tanimoto rescues keep complaining about?
(a) She complains that she is very nauseous.
(b) She complains that she is hot.
(c) She complains that she is cold.
(d) She complains that her burns are too painful.

15. What is Miss Sasaki told before she is lifted to a relief station?
(a) She is told that her parents survived, but her siblings are dead.
(b) She is told that her whole family is dead.
(c) She is told that her whole family has survived.
(d) She is told that her father, mother, and baby brother are dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. On August 15, who publicly speaks for the first time in Japanese history over the radio?

2. What happens to Dr. Sasaki about seven months after the bombing?

3. In Chapter 3, what happens in Hiroshima that causes more devastation?

4. What does the rumor being spread about the atomic bomb do to Mrs. Nakamura and her children?

5. What are the people at Asano Park promised by a young officer?

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