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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do Japanese scientists announce after having investigated Hiroshima?
(a) They announce that people could enter Hiroshima without any peril at all.
(b) They announce that people could enter Hiroshima at their own risk.
(c) The announce that they need to do much more intense investigation to learn whether or not Hiroshima is safe.
(d) They announce that the radiation measurement is so high, people need to stay away from the city for at least 30 days.

4. What does the rumor being spread about the atomic bomb do to Mrs. Nakamura and her children?
(a) The rumor makes them lose all hope of ever regaining their normal lives.
(b) The rumor makes them feel more resigned and passive about the moral issue of the atomic bomb.
(c) The rumor makes them wish they had died the moment the bomb dropped.
(d) The rumor arouses more hatred and resentment of America than they had felt all through the war.

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

6. In the afternoon of the third day after the bombing, what does Dr. Sasaki become obsessed with?
(a) The idea that he is contaminated with radioactivity.
(b) The idea that such horrific act as the atomic bomb could take place.
(c) The fact that 100,000 people were killed within an instant.
(d) The idea that his mother thinks he is dead.

7. What does Mr. Tanimoto have to keep consciously repeating to himself in order to get all the people across the river?
(a) "It's a great sin to leave them behind."
(b) "God will reward me."
(c) ""What if I was in their place?"
(d) "They are human beings."

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

9. Why is it several days before the survivors of Hiroshima know about the bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) The Emperor requests that it be so.
(b) Japanese newspapers and radio fear the country will experience an uncontrollable hysteria if they hear of the bomb.
(c) The Japanese government wants to first better understand what is going on.
(d) Japanese newspapers and radio are extremely cautious on the subject of the weapon.

10. What does Dr. Sasaki feel should happen to the men who decided to use the bomb?
(a) They should be shot to death.
(b) They should come to Japan and witness the damage they did.
(c) They should be tried and hanged.
(d) They should be bombed themselves.

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

12. What does Mr. Tanimoto do after the people at the park are promised to receive help?
(a) He falls asleep, exhausted.
(b) He helps settle people in for the night.
(c) He tries to keep everyone in the park calm and collective.
(d) He resumes ferrying the wounded across the river.

13. What happens to Mrs. Nakamura a few weeks after the bombing?
(a) She experiences fainting spells.
(b) She becomes blind.
(c) She becomes deaf.
(d) She becomes bald.

14. A year after the bomb is dropped, Miss Sasaki is...
(a) Married.
(b) A cripple.
(c) In a deep depression.
(d) A happy woman.

15. 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 bones break through her skin.
(b) He hears her joints disconnecting from each other.
(c) Her skin slips off in huge, glovelike pieces.
(d) Her hands are as hard as clay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Fujii end up doing with regards to his work?

2. What happens to the Kataoka children, sister and brother, whom Father Kleinsorge finds?

3. What does the news that was heard on the radio August 15 convey?

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

5. What does one of the two girls who Mr. Tanimoto rescues keep complaining about?

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