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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. Why does the Jesuit's mission house remain standing after the bombing?
(a) Its concrete was extroardinarily thick.
(b) It was braced and double braced.
(c) No one knows.
(d) It used to be a shelter.

2. What is Mr. Hatsuyo Nakamura doing when the bomb drops?
(a) She is fixing up her childrens' bedroom.
(b) She is watching a neighbor from her kitchen window.
(c) She is cooking a meal for her children in the kitchen.
(d) She is watching her five year old from the bedroom window.

3. After the explosion, what does Father Kleinsorge run around in?
(a) A heavy coat.
(b) His underwear.
(c) His pajamas.
(d) His bathrobe.

4. With whom is Miss Sasaki laid on a large sheet under the rain?
(a) She is laid with four other wounded, two men and two women.
(b) She is laid with three children.
(c) She is laid with two other wounded people, a man and a woman.
(d) She is laid with one other person.

5. What do the people attribute their sickness of nausea and vomiting to?
(a) Gas the Americans dropped.
(b) The food they'd eaten.
(c) The water they'd drank.
(d) The terrible smell of the bomb.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dr. Sasaki work?

2. What do the Japanese call the B-29?

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

4. What is the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto doing when the bomb drops?

5. Mostly, what food is brought back from the shelter for the wounded?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura.

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

3. What steps does Mrs. Nakamura take after the bombing?

4. What is the atmosphere like at Asano Park?

5. Describe Dr. Terufumi Sasaki.

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

7. What is the weather at Asano Park like?

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

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

10. Describe Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge.

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