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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 worry about the costs involved to rebuild the city.
(d) They don't know how they would rebuild the city.

2. On August 15, who publicly speaks for the first time in Japanese history over the radio?
(a) Hirohito, the Emperor Tenno.
(b) The prime minister of Japan.
(c) The president of Japan.
(d) The American president.

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

4. What is the condition of one of the wounded people lying beside Miss Sasaki?
(a) A soldier's eye sockets are hollow from the burns.
(b) An old woman is nearly dead.
(c) A man has lost his arm.
(d) A woman has lost her breast.

5. 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 sleep for seventeen hours.
(c) To transfer to another hospital.
(d) To take a two-day break from the Red Cross Hospital.

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

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

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

9. The symptoms people came down with is a disease later to be known as...
(a) Radiation sickness.
(b) Radiation poison.
(c) Radiation danger.
(d) Radiation cancer.

10. What happens to Mr. Tanimoto's health a few weeks after the bombing?
(a) He falls ill with malaise, weariness, and feverishness.
(b) He is suddenly unable to walk.
(c) He experiences upset stomachs.
(d) He loses all his hair.

11. Why does Father Kelinsorge go to the police station the day after the bombing?
(a) To fill out a claim form for property damage.
(b) To ask if they could assist in bringing doctors to Asano Park.
(c) To see if they needed any help.
(d) To find the parents of two little children.

12. What does Dr. Fujii do the night after the explosion?
(a) He lies on the ground at Asano Park, unable to help the wounded.
(b) He lies on the floor in his family's roofless house.
(c) He helps the wounded at Asano Park.
(d) He helps the wounded at the Red Cross Hospital.

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

14. Why isn't Mr. Tanimoto able to bring a doctor to Asano Park?
(a) He can't find any.
(b) The doctors tell him there is no hope in saving those who are wounded by the bomb.
(c) Doctors elsewhere have thousands of their own wounded to care for.
(d) The doctors he meets are badly wounded themselves.

15. At the Red Cross Hospital, how many doctors are available for ten thousand patients?
(a) 1100.
(b) 8.
(c) 108.
(d) 500.

Short Answer Questions

1. What in particular causes Miss Sasaki unease as she looks at the ruins of Hiroshima?

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

3. What does the first army doctor who sees Miss Sasaki say?

4. When is the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki?

5. To the Japanese, what is a greater moral responsibility than adequate care of the living?

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