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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. Why is it several days before the survivors of Hiroshima know about the bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) The Emperor requests that it be so.
(b) The Japanese government wants to first better understand what is going on.
(c) Japanese newspapers and radio are extremely cautious on the subject of the weapon.
(d) Japanese newspapers and radio fear the country will experience an uncontrollable hysteria if they hear of the bomb.

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

3. How do the Nakamura children react during the night at Asano Park?
(a) They cry throughout the night.
(b) They are interested in everything that happens.
(c) They are frightnened by what is happening.
(d) They cough and vomit throughout the night.

4. 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 see if they needed any help.
(c) To ask if they could assist in bringing doctors to Asano Park.
(d) To fill out a claim form for property damage.

5. What is the condition of one of the wounded people lying beside Miss Sasaki?
(a) A woman has lost her breast.
(b) An old woman is nearly dead.
(c) A soldier's eye sockets are hollow from the burns.
(d) A man has lost his arm.

Short Answer Questions

1. As symptoms of radiation disease reveal themselves, it becomes clear that many of them resemble the effects of...

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

3. The symptoms people came down with is a disease later to be known as...

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Miss Sasaki spend the first night of the bombing?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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