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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. With whom is Miss Sasaki laid on a large sheet under the rain?

2. After the explosion, what does Father Kleinsorge run around in?

3. After being at the park for a while, what becomes the peoples' concern?

4. How many people in Hiroshima are killed by the atomic bomb?

5. Before the bomb falls, what does everyone in Hiroshima expect to suffer?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Mrs. Nakamura and her children spend the night prior to the bombing?

3. Describe Dr. Fujii's private clinic.

4. What may have saved Dr. Sasaki's life the morning of the bomb?

5. What is the atmosphere like at Asano Park?

6. What steps does Mrs. Nakamura take after the bombing?

7. After the bomb hits, what does Mr. Tanimoto see from the mound in the garden?

8. Describe Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura.

9. Describe Dr. Masakazu Fujii and his lifestyle prior to the bombing.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After the atomic bomb, nature revives itself.

1. Discuss what the greenery that Miss Sasaki finds in Chapter 4 represents in relations to the destruction caused by the bomb.

2. What other roles does nature, things like the storm and water, play in the city's destruction/revival or in people's lives? Cite examples to prove your theory.

Essay Topic 2

The effectiveness, or lack of, establishing peace after the bombing.

1. Are the various characters' attempts at establishing peace considered futile or productive? Cite three examples that prove your theory.

2. Did people like Mr. Tanimoto and Norman Cousins make a difference in Japan, the U.S., and the world? What difference(s)?

3. How effect would the absence of such people as Mr. Tanimoto and Norman Cousins have on the world?

Essay Topic 3

John Hersey portrays the lives of six survivors of the atomic bomb.

1. Does Hersey give equal content to each character's story in the book or does there seem to be a preference over one or the other? Cite examples to prove your theory.

2. Why were these six characters chosen for the book? What similarities and differences do they possess that enables the story to be told effectively?

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