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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For more than a month, Dr. Sasaki works...
(a) With a badly injured leg.
(b) Without having any glasses.
(c) With a badly injured arm.
(d) Wearing someone else's glasses.

2. What is Mrs. Halsuyo Nakamura's profession?
(a) She is a tailor.
(b) She is a dental assistant.
(c) She is a teacher.
(d) She is a nurse.

3. What is a Molotov flower basket?
(a) The name the Japanese gave the American bombers.
(b) The name the Japanese gave the atomic bomb.
(c) The delicate Japanese name for self-scattering cluster of bombs.
(d) The delicate Japanese name for B-29s.

4. Who does Dr. Terufimi Sasaki live with?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His cousin.
(d) His brother.

5. What is Miss Toshinki doing when the bomb drops?
(a) She has just lifted some papers off her desk.
(b) She has just approached her boss to ask for a raise.
(c) She has just grabbed a cup of coffee and is heading towards her desk.
(d) She has just turned her head to chat with the girl at the next desk.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a roar of approaching planes is heard at Asano Park, the baker commands people to take off garments having what color?

2. What does Mr. Tanimoto take from the five dead men in the river?

3. Almost no one in Hiroshima recalls...

4. Mr. Tanimoto carries water from the river to the people, an act which...

5. Why does the Jesuit's mission house remain standing after the bombing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dr. Sasaki work at the Red Cross Hospital under the horrific circumstances?

2. What are some of the reasons people pour into Asano Park?

3. What explains why so many citizens who are hurt go unattended and why so many citizens who might have lived die?

4. The day of the bombing, what is Mr. Tanimoto's morning like?

5. After the bomb hits, what does Mr. Tanimoto see from the mound in the garden?

6. Describe Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura.

7. What may have saved Dr. Sasaki's life the morning of the bomb?

8. What does Mr. Tanimoto encounter on his way to and from finding his wife and baby?

9. What puzzles Dr. Fujii and his doctor friend about what they see after the bombing?

10. What is the atmosphere like at Asano Park?

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