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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. What does Mrs. Nakamura do as soon as everything turns white?
(a) She turns towards her children.
(b) She hides beneath the bed.
(c) She runs outside.
(d) She kneels down and covers her head.

2. Almost no one in Hiroshima recalls...
(a) Having heard people calling to be rescued.
(b) Having heard any sirens warning of the bomb hours prior to the bombing.
(c) Having heard any noise of the bomb.
(d) Having heard the all clear sounding.

3. Why does Dr. Fujii have to get up early on the morning the bomb is dropped?
(a) He has to make breakfast for his children.
(b) He has to tend to newcoming patients.
(c) He has to see a houseguest off on a train.
(d) He has to pack his belongings in preparation to go to the shelter.

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

5. What are the huge drops of water falling from the sky?
(a) They are water mixed with fission fragments.
(b) They are water coming from the hoses of firemen fighting the blaze.
(c) They are drops of condensed moisture.
(d) They are simply rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mrs. Nakamura's husband die?

2. After the explosion, what does Father Kleinsorge run around in?

3. What it something Dr. Fujii feel despite the misery all around him?

4. What did Mrs. Nakamura's deceased husband do for a living?

5. What is a Molotov flower basket?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mrs. Nakamura and her children spend the night prior to the bombing?

2. Describe Dr. Fujii's private clinic.

3. Describe Reverend Mr. Tanimoto.

4. Describe Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge.

5. Why does Miss Toshiko Sasaki get up at 3 o'clock in the morning the day the bomb falls?

6. Describe Dr. Masakazu Fujii and his lifestyle prior to the bombing.

7. Prior to the bombing, why do the police question Mr. Tanimoto several times?

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

9. Describe Dr. Terufumi Sasaki.

10. What is Mrs. Nakamura doing the morning of the bombing?

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