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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 should be attended to only after the survivors have been taken care of.
(c) Cremation is the responsibility of relatives only.
(d) Cremation is not important under dire circumstances.

2. On August 15, who publicly speaks for the first time in Japanese history over the radio?
(a) The American president.
(b) The prime minister of Japan.
(c) Hirohito, the Emperor Tenno.
(d) The president of Japan.

3. In Chapter 3, when Mr. Tanimoto reaches down to the river and takes a woman by the hand, what sickens him so much that he has to sit down?
(a) Her skin slips off in huge, glovelike pieces.
(b) Her bones break through her skin.
(c) He hears her joints disconnecting from each other.
(d) Her hands are as hard as clay.

4. As symptoms of radiation disease reveal themselves, it becomes clear that many of them resemble the effects of...
(a) An overdose of gamma rays.
(b) An overdose of electromagnetic radiation.
(c) An overdose of x-rays.
(d) An overdose of electromagnetic spectrum.

5. What happens to Dr. Sasaki about seven months after the bombing?
(a) He leaves the Red Cross Hospital.
(b) He loses 60 pounds.
(c) He gets married.
(d) He is bedridden for one month.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens to Mrs. Nakamura a few weeks after the bombing?

5. What does the doctor tell Father Kleinsorge at the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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