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

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

3. What does one of the two girls who Mr. Tanimoto rescues keep complaining about?
(a) She complains that she is hot.
(b) She complains that she is cold.
(c) She complains that her burns are too painful.
(d) She complains that she is very nauseous.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the afternoon of the third day after the bombing, what does Dr. Sasaki become obsessed with?

2. Why is it several days before the survivors of Hiroshima know about the bomb dropped on Hiroshima?

3. When is the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki?

4. A year after the bomb is dropped, Miss Sasaki is...

5. Why does Mr. Tanaka expect all the doctors of Hiroshima to come to him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mr. Tanaka.

2. Who does Mr. Tanimoto keep trying to avoid at the park?

3. In trying to rescue the 20 or so men and women in the sandpit, what makes Mr. Tanimoto sick?

4. What happens to Mrs. Nakamura's physical condition a few weeks after the bombing?

5. By mid-September, what is Dr. Sasaki's condition at the Red Cross Hospital?

6. How do the Nakamura children spend the night at Asano Park the day of the bombing?

7. What does Mr. Tanimoto see when he awakes in the first light of dawn, the first morning after the bombing?

8. Outside, what is the condition of the Red Cross Hospital?

9. How does President Truman describe the atomic bomb during his radio announcement?

10. What is Dr. Fujii doing a month after the bombing?

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