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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. In Chapter 2, the author writes that most people in Hiroshima were too busy or too weary or too badly hurt to do what?
(a) To know whether or not they would receive any aid.
(b) To care when they heard that another big city had been bombed.
(c) To care that the U.S. president and their own government officials were making radio announcements.
(d) To care that they were the objects of the first great experiment in the use of atomic power.

2. What does Mr. Tanimoto have to keep consciously repeating to himself in order to get all the people across the river?
(a) "God will reward me."
(b) "They are human beings."
(c) "It's a great sin to leave them behind."
(d) ""What if I was in their place?"

3. Who is the person Miss Sasaki thinks about while in the hospital?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her fiance.
(d) Her mother.

4. On August 7th, what radio broadcast announcement do the Japanese make?
(a) "The bomb used by the Americans had more power than twenty thousand tons of TNT."
(b) "The bomb has left few survivors."
(c) "The bomb used by the Americans had two thousand times the blast power of the British Grand Slam, which is the largest bomb yet used in the history of wartime."
(d) "It is believed that a new type of bomb was used on Hiroshima. The details are being investigated."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What concern is there about giving Father Kliensorge a blood transfusion?

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

3. What is the one feeling the survivors of Hiroshima share?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. After he feels better, why is Father Kleinsorge able to enjoy himself at the hospital in Tokyo?

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

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

4. What are the views of the people of Hiroshima about the ethics of using the bomb?

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

6. What does Mr. Tanimoto see when he awakes in the first light of dawn, the first morning 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 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 makes Father Kleinsorge a little hysterical, wanting to cry after feeling thirsty in the dreadful heat?

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