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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 do the civilians hear on the radio that brings them tears?
(a) The pilot of Enola Gay saying he didn't realize the magnitute of what he was doing.
(b) Their government promising to rebuild their homes.
(c) The Emperor's voice.
(d) People expressing the horros they'd undergone as a result of the bombing.

2. In the afternoon of the third day after the bombing, what does Dr. Sasaki become obsessed with?
(a) The idea that his mother thinks he is dead.
(b) The idea that he is contaminated with radioactivity.
(c) The fact that 100,000 people were killed within an instant.
(d) The idea that such horrific act as the atomic bomb could take place.

3. What does the news that was heard on the radio August 15 convey?
(a) The war is over.
(b) The war has just begun.
(c) The war will continue.
(d) Japan still has a chance to win the war.

4. What does Miss Sasaki seem to draw physical strength from?
(a) Father Kleinsorge's answers about life.
(b) Her wounded leg returning to normal.
(c) The patients who are worse off than she is.
(d) A family member showing up at the hospital.

5. On August 18th, what does Father Kleinsorge begin to feel as he walks halfway from the center of town?
(a) He feels a lot of pain in his legs.
(b) He feels very cold.
(c) He feels excruciatingly tired.
(d) He feels very nauseous.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, the author writes that most people in Hiroshima were too busy or too weary or too badly hurt to do what?

2. What is the one feeling the survivors of Hiroshima share?

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

4. Months after she is discharged from the hospital, what does Miss Sasaki prepare herself for?

5. What does the rumor being spread about the atomic bomb do to Mrs. Nakamura and her children?

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

3. By midsummer, Mrs. Nakamura's savings are gone. How then does she survive?

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

5. What in particular makes Miss Sasaki uneasy when she sees the ruins of Hiroshima for the first time?

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

7. Describe Mr. Tanaka.

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

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

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

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