View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the person Miss Sasaki thinks about while in the hospital?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her fiance.
(d) Her mother.

2. What is the condition of one of the wounded people lying beside Miss Sasaki?
(a) A soldier's eye sockets are hollow from the burns.
(b) An old woman is nearly dead.
(c) A man has lost his arm.
(d) A woman has lost her breast.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Fujii offer the Jesuit when they find him at eleven o'clock in the morning?

2. What does a young man who is staying at the same hospital as that of Miss Sasaki give her?

3. How does Mrs. Nakamura react when her sewing machine is retrieved?

4. The symptoms people came down with is a disease later to be known as...

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What makes Father Kleinsorge a little hysterical, wanting to cry after feeling thirsty in the dreadful heat?

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

4. After Mr. Tanimoto rescues the people from the sandpit, what stirs his rage?

5. What happens to Father Kleinsorge's physical condition a few weeks after the bombing?

6. What are the Japanese physicists' concern about the bomb and what do they do about it?

7. After he feels better, why is Father Kleinsorge able to enjoy himself at the hospital in Tokyo?

8. What are the views of the people of Hiroshima about the ethics of using the bomb?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 873 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample