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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, the author writes that most people in Hiroshima were too busy or too weary or too badly hurt to do what?
(a) To care when they heard that another big city had been bombed.
(b) To know whether or not they would receive any aid.
(c) To care that they were the objects of the first great experiment in the use of atomic power.
(d) To care that the U.S. president and their own government officials were making radio announcements.

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

4. 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 cold.
(c) He feels very nauseous.
(d) He feels a lot of pain in his legs.

5. What rumor is spread as a result of people feeling sick nearly a month after the atomic bomb?
(a) Anyone who was poisoned by the atomic bomb will live a miximum of 7 years.
(b) The atomic bomb had deposited some sort of poison on Hiroshima that will give off deadly emanations for 7 years.
(c) The poison deposited by the atomic bomb is contagious.
(d) The atomic bomb gave off poison that will eat away at the victims' bodies for the next 7 years.

6. What does a shortwave rebroadcast announcement by the President of the United States do?
(a) It expresses sympathy for the citizens who were killed and wounded.
(b) It warns of another bomb expected to hit Japan.
(c) It identifies the number of people the bomb killed.
(d) It identifies the new bomb as atomic.

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

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

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

10. On August 7th, what radio broadcast announcement do the Japanese make?
(a) "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."
(b) "The bomb used by the Americans had more power than twenty thousand tons of TNT."
(c) "The bomb has left few survivors."
(d) "It is believed that a new type of bomb was used on Hiroshima. The details are being investigated."

11. When Father Kleinsorge arrives to the hospital, what condition is he in?
(a) He has a terrible rash all over.
(b) He is bleeding profusely.
(c) He is terribly pale and very shaky.
(d) He is unconscious.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Mr. Tanimoto's health a few weeks after the bombing?

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

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

4. By February 1946, what condition is Miss Sasaki in when Father Kleinsorge visits her?

5. After the bombing, what two feeling predominate the citizens of Hiroshima for the Americans?

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