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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to Dr. Sasaki about seven months after the bombing?
(a) He gets married.
(b) He leaves the Red Cross Hospital.
(c) He is bedridden for one month.
(d) He loses 60 pounds.

3. What does the women holding the dead baby keep requesting of Mr. Tanimoto?
(a) To get her a doctor.
(b) To find her husband.
(c) To revive her daughter.
(d) To find her son.

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

5. To the Japanese, what is a greater moral responsibility than adequate care of the living?
(a) Cremation is not important under dire circumstances.
(b) Cremation is the responsibility of relatives only.
(c) Disposal of the dead by decent cremation and enshrinment.
(d) Cremation should be attended to only after the survivors have been taken care of.

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

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

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

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

10. 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 has survived.
(c) She is told that her father, mother, and baby brother are dead.
(d) She is told that her whole family is dead.

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

12. When is the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki?
(a) August 9th.
(b) September 4th.
(c) October 9th.
(d) November 11th.

13. In Hiroshima, Father Kleinsorges is one of thousands of sufferers; in Tokyo...
(a) His case is very common.
(b) He is a curiosity.
(c) He is one of a hundred sufferers.
(d) He is one of a million sufferers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mrs. Nakamura react when her sewing machine is retrieved?

2. Where does Mrs. Nakamura and her children go to after leaving the park?

3. In the afternoon of the third day after the bombing, what does Dr. Sasaki become obsessed with?

4. What does a shortwave rebroadcast announcement by the President of the United States do?

5. Prior to the bombing, why is Hiroshima an inviting target?

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