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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 do after the people at the park are promised to receive help?
(a) He falls asleep, exhausted.
(b) He resumes ferrying the wounded across the river.
(c) He helps settle people in for the night.
(d) He tries to keep everyone in the park calm and collective.

2. After the bombing, what two feeling predominate the citizens of Hiroshima for the Americans?
(a) Compassion and frustration.
(b) Jealousy and resentment.
(c) Wonderment and disgust.
(d) Indifference and hatred.

3. Why does Father Kelinsorge go to the police station the day after the bombing?
(a) To find the parents of two little children.
(b) To fill out a claim form for property damage.
(c) To ask if they could assist in bringing doctors to Asano Park.
(d) To see if they needed any help.

4. Why doesn't Mrs. Nakamura see a doctor for her ailments?
(a) Her relative is a nurse who gives her the proper treatment.
(b) She is afraid of what the doctor may tell her.
(c) She doesn't feel she is sick enough.
(d) She is too poor.

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 has a terrible rash all over.
(d) He is bleeding profusely.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Nakamura children react during the night at Asano Park?

2. Who is the person Miss Sasaki thinks about while in the hospital?

3. When is the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki?

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

5. What does the women holding the dead baby keep requesting of Mr. Tanimoto?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How do the Japanese react to their Emperor's radio broadcast?

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

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

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

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

9. What affect does Father Kleinsorge's answers to Miss Sasaki's questions about life have on her health?

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

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