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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. By February 1946, what condition is Miss Sasaki in when Father Kleinsorge visits her?
(a) She is ready to start a new life.
(b) She is getting sicker everyday.
(c) She is beginning to walk around and show signs of strength.
(d) She has grown more and more depressed and morbid.

2. After 19 straight hours of gruesome work, what does Dr. Sasaki and other survivors of the hospital staff do?
(a) They break up in search of other doctors.
(b) They leave the hospital.
(c) They lay down in hiding behind the hospital to catch some sleep.
(d) They go behind the hospital to eat some biscuits and rice balls.

3. In Hiroshima, Father Kleinsorges is one of thousands of sufferers; in Tokyo...
(a) His case is very common.
(b) He is a curiosity.
(c) He is one of a hundred sufferers.
(d) He is one of a million sufferers.

4. What is the one feeling the survivors of Hiroshima share?
(a) The hatred for Americans.
(b) The hope that everything will one day be better.
(c) The feeling of elated community spirit.
(d) The desire to assist other atomic bomb victims.

5. Why does Mr. Tanaka expect all the doctors of Hiroshima to come to him?
(a) He is very rich and famous for giving his money away.
(b) He is a well-known and loved celebrity.
(c) He is a well-known doctor in Hiroshima.
(d) He is one of the most popular and loved man in Hiroshima.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What ends up happening to Mr. Fukai, the Japanese secretary of the diocese?

4. What does Dr. Fujii do once his injuries begin to make progress?

5. Why is it several days before the survivors of Hiroshima know about the bomb dropped on Hiroshima?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe Mr. Tanaka.

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

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

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

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