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Multiple Choice Questions

1. On August 18th, what does Father Kleinsorge begin to feel as he walks halfway from the center of town?
(a) He feels excruciatingly tired.
(b) He feels very nauseous.
(c) He feels a lot of pain in his legs.
(d) He feels very cold.

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

3. Why does Mr. Tanaka send his daughter for Mr. Tanimoto, whom he hadn't been on good terms with?
(a) He wants to apologize for the way he had treated Mr. Tanimoto.
(b) He knows Mr. Tanimoto is good hearted and would assist him any way he could.
(c) He knows he is dying and is willing to be comforted by any religion.
(d) He knows he is dying and wants to ask Mr. Tanimoto to look after his daughter.

4. Where is Father Kleinsorge a year after the bomb?
(a) He has completely rebuilt his church.
(b) He has traveled to America.
(c) He is back in the hospital.
(d) He is back in Germany.

5. What do the civilians hear on the radio that brings them tears?
(a) People expressing the horros they'd undergone as a result of the bombing.
(b) The Emperor's voice.
(c) The pilot of Enola Gay saying he didn't realize the magnitute of what he was doing.
(d) Their government promising to rebuild their homes.

6. What happens to the Kataoka children, sister and brother, whom Father Kleinsorge finds?
(a) They die.
(b) They have to be separated.
(c) They are returned to their mother.
(d) It is discovered that their entire family is dead.

7. What does Mr. Tanaka do as Mr. Tanimoto reads the psalm?
(a) He dies.
(b) He asks him to stop.
(c) He loses consciesness.
(d) He vomits.

8. On August 7th, what radio broadcast announcement do the Japanese make?
(a) "The bomb has left few survivors."
(b) "The bomb used by the Americans had more power than twenty thousand tons of TNT."
(c) "It is believed that a new type of bomb was used on Hiroshima. The details are being investigated."
(d) "The bomb used by the Americans had two thousand times the blast power of the British Grand Slam, which is the largest bomb yet used in the history of wartime."

9. What ends up happening to Mr. Fukai, the Japanese secretary of the diocese?
(a) He is found dead.
(b) He was last seen running into a fire.
(c) He is found at the Red Cross Hospital.
(d) No one sees him again.

10. In Chapter 3, when Mr. Tanimoto reaches down to the river and takes a woman by the hand, what sickens him so much that he has to sit down?
(a) Her skin slips off in huge, glovelike pieces.
(b) Her bones break through her skin.
(c) Her hands are as hard as clay.
(d) He hears her joints disconnecting from each other.

11. Where does Mrs. Nakamura and her children go to after leaving the park?
(a) They move in with Mrs. Nakamura's family.
(b) They move in with Mrs. Nakamura's sister-in-law.
(c) They live at the shelter for a while.
(d) They have Father Kleinsorge find them a small room.

12. How do the Nakamura children react during the night at Asano Park?
(a) They cry throughout the night.
(b) They cough and vomit throughout the night.
(c) They are interested in everything that happens.
(d) They are frightnened by what is happening.

13. What does the first army doctor who sees Miss Sasaki say?
(a) Her leg needs a simple surgery.
(b) She is going to die.
(c) Her leg has to be amputated.
(d) Her body is poisoned by gas gangrene.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Japanese scientists announce after having investigated Hiroshima?

2. Months after she is discharged from the hospital, what does Miss Sasaki prepare herself for?

3. Why does Mr. Tanaka expect all the doctors of Hiroshima to come to him?

4. What does Mrs. Nakamura do once she receives money from the bank for her husband's bond?

5. What is the one feeling the survivors of Hiroshima share?

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