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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 end up doing with regards to his work?
(a) He devotes his life to helping atomic bomb victims.
(b) He works out of his home.
(c) He retires.
(d) He buys a vacant private clinic and builds a strong practice.

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

3. Who is the person Miss Sasaki thinks about while in the hospital?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her fiance.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her brother.

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

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

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

7. What does the doctor tell Mother Superior about Father Kleinsorge?
(a) "He'll die."
(b) "We can't help him here."
(c) "With the right treatment, he'll live a healthy normal life."
(d) "We'll get him out of here in three months."

8. Why does Mr. Tanaka expect all the doctors of Hiroshima to come to him?
(a) He is one of the most popular and loved man in Hiroshima.
(b) He is a well-known and loved celebrity.
(c) He is very rich and famous for giving his money away.
(d) He is a well-known doctor in Hiroshima.

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

10. At Asano Park, after Father Kleinsorge tries to settle down for the night, prays, and falls asleep, what wakes him up?
(a) The mission keeper who asks him if he'd remembered to repeat his evening prayers.
(b) People cheering after they'd heard they were going to be rescued.
(c) The sudden rainstorm.
(d) The nurse who asks him if he wants anything to eat.

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

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

13. Why doesn't Mrs. Nakamura see a doctor for her ailments?
(a) Her relative is a nurse who gives her the proper treatment.
(b) She is too poor.
(c) She is afraid of what the doctor may tell her.
(d) She doesn't feel she is sick enough.

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

15. Months after she is discharged from the hospital, what does Miss Sasaki prepare herself for?
(a) Searching for her siblings.
(b) Finding a job.
(c) Getting married.
(d) Conversion to Catholicism.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is Miss Sasaki told before she is lifted to a relief station?

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