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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does NOT happen to the people at Asano Park?

2. What does Mr. Fukai, the Secretary of the diocese, keep saying while he's being rescued?

3. What do the six survivors in Hiroshima, who John Hersey writes about, still wonder?

4. What does Mr. Tanimoto take from the five dead men in the river?

5. Why does Dr. Fujii have to get up early on the morning the bomb is dropped?

Short Essay Questions

1. The day of the bombing, what is Mr. Tanimoto's morning like?

2. What is the atmosphere like at Asano Park?

3. Prior to the bombing, why do the police question Mr. Tanimoto several times?

4. What is the manner in which Miss Sasaki is rescued?

5. What does Mr. Tanimoto encounter on his way to and from finding his wife and baby?

6. What is Mrs. Nakamura doing the morning of the bombing?

7. What are some of the reasons people pour into Asano Park?

8. Why does Miss Toshiko Sasaki get up at 3 o'clock in the morning the day the bomb falls?

9. How does Mr. Fukai, the secretary of the diocese, behave after Hiroshima is hit by the bomb?

10. What is the weather at Asano Park like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

People make various theories about what the Americans dropped on Japan on August 6, 1945.

1. What events leading to the bomb and the consequences thereafter cause the Japanese people to be utterly confused as to what the Americans dropped on Hiroshima?

2. What was the purpose behind the American government not warning the people of the bomb?

Essay Topic 2

The Japanese government's response to the bombing.

1) Why is the government slow to respond to the victims of the bombing? Cite three examples from the book.

2) When and why does the government begin to respond to the citizens of Hiroshima who were affected by the bomb?

3) How do the characters in the book view their government's response to the bomb? Do they blame their government for the Hiroshima bombing? What about the bombing of Nagasaki? Cite three examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

The aftermath of the bombing and how it affects the government and future of Japan's science.

1. What is the message behind the Japanese government quickly rebuilding Hiroshima?

2. How does the dropping of the atomic bomb affect the Japanese government's pride and outlook upon itself and its future with regards to war? Cite three examples from the book.

3. What affects does the bomb have on the future of Japan's science?

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