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

2. 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) He hears her joints disconnecting from each other.
(b) Her hands are as hard as clay.
(c) Her skin slips off in huge, glovelike pieces.
(d) Her bones break through her skin.

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

4. In trying to rebuild the city, what is the Planning Conference in Hiroshima at a loss to?
(a) They worry about the costs involved to rebuild the city.
(b) They don't know what importance could Hiroshima now have.
(c) They don't know how they would rebuild the city.
(d) They don't know hwo to get people to move back into the city.

5. The symptoms people came down with is a disease later to be known as...
(a) Radiation cancer.
(b) Radiation poison.
(c) Radiation sickness.
(d) Radiation danger.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Father Kleinsorge arrives to the hospital, what condition is he in?

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

3. Where does Mrs. Nakamura and her children go to after leaving the park?

4. What is Miss Sasaki told before she is lifted to a relief station?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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