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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. To the Japanese, what is a greater moral responsibility than adequate care of the living?
(a) Disposal of the dead by decent cremation and enshrinment.
(b) Cremation is the responsibility of relatives only.
(c) Cremation is not important under dire circumstances.
(d) Cremation should be attended to only after the survivors have been taken care of.

2. Months after she is discharged from the hospital, what does Miss Sasaki prepare herself for?
(a) Finding a job.
(b) Searching for her siblings.
(c) Getting married.
(d) Conversion to Catholicism.

3. What concern is there about giving Father Kliensorge a blood transfusion?
(a) Atomic bomb patients may not stop bleeding once needles are stuck in them.
(b) He may receive badly poisoned blood from an atomic bomb survivor.
(c) There isn't the proper equipment for blood transfusions for atomic bomb patients.
(d) Atomic bomb patients become sick during blood transfusions.

4. What is Miss Sasaki told before she is lifted to a relief station?
(a) She is told that her father, mother, and baby brother are dead.
(b) She is told that her parents survived, but her siblings are dead.
(c) She is told that her whole family has survived.
(d) She is told that her whole family is dead.

5. What does Dr. Sasaki feel should happen to the men who decided to use the bomb?
(a) They should come to Japan and witness the damage they did.
(b) They should be shot to death.
(c) They should be bombed themselves.
(d) They should be tried and hanged.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rumor is spread as a result of people feeling sick nearly a month after the atomic bomb?

2. What does Mrs. Nakamura do once she receives money from the bank for her husband's bond?

3. On August 15, who publicly speaks for the first time in Japanese history over the radio?

4. What does Mr. Tanimoto have to keep consciously repeating to himself in order to get all the people across the river?

5. What does Miss Sasaki seem to draw physical strength from?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What theory does Dr. Sasaki and his colleagues at the Red Cross Hospital make about the first stage of the radiation disease?

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

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

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

6. How does Miss Sasaki spend the first night of the bombing?

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

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

9. What does Mr. Tanimoto see when he goes to find a doctor at an aid station?

10. What does Miss Sasaki think about while at the hospital and why?

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