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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 Dr. Sasaki eventually get permission from the Red Cross Hospital to do?
(a) To take a two-day break from the Red Cross Hospital.
(b) To transfer to another hospital.
(c) To go to his mother's home in Mukaihara.
(d) To sleep for seventeen hours.

2. On August 18th, what does Father Kleinsorge use his suitcase for?
(a) He uses it to carry important documents to the police station.
(b) He uses it to carry his personal belongings to a safe place.
(c) He uses it to carry the yen belonging to the Society of Jesus to the bank.
(d) He uses it to store his own money.

3. What does Dr. Fujii do once his injuries begin to make progress?
(a) He leaves the city to go live with relatives.
(b) He treats refugees who come to him from the neighborhood.
(c) He keeps to himself.
(d) He offers to assist patients at the Red Cross Hospital.

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

5. At Asano Park, after Father Kleinsorge tries to settle down for the night, prays, and falls asleep, what wakes him up?
(a) People cheering after they'd heard they were going to be rescued.
(b) The nurse who asks him if he wants anything to eat.
(c) The mission keeper who asks him if he'd remembered to repeat his evening prayers.
(d) The sudden rainstorm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Fujii do the night after the explosion?

2. What does a shortwave rebroadcast announcement by the President of the United States do?

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

4. What does Mr. Tanimoto do after the people at the park are promised to receive help?

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

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

3. Who does Mr. Tanimoto keep trying to avoid at the park?

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

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

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

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

8. By mid-September, what is Dr. Sasaki's condition at the Red Cross Hospital?

9. Describe Mr. Tanaka.

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

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