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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. Who helps Mrs. Nakamura free the children?

2. What is the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto doing when the bomb drops?

3. Mrs. Nakamura dresses her children in everything except for...

4. When a roar of approaching planes is heard at Asano Park, the baker commands people to take off garments having what color?

5. On what day is the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What explains why so many citizens who are hurt go unattended and why so many citizens who might have lived die?

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 is the manner in which Miss Sasaki is rescued?

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

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

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

10. How does Dr. Sasaki work at the Red Cross Hospital under the horrific circumstances?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Weeks after the explosion, people experience radiation sickness.

1. How were some of the characters able to excel despite radiation sickness? Would the characters have been able to push as far had they not experienced the trauma of the atomic bomb and radiation sickness?

2. What immediate actions could the Japanese or other governments, like that of the United states, have done to help ease the peoples' radiation sickness?

Essay Topic 2

After the bombing the Japanese are stoic in a number of ways. Describe the various ways that the Japanese show stoicism and explain what roots and relationships the characters have to their heritage and government. Cite three examples that prove your theory.

Essay Topic 3

Of the six characters, Dr. Fujii is the one least affected physically by the bombing and the Reverend Tanimoto's experience is the exact opposite.

Part 1) Compare and contrast the two men's ailments or lack of after the bombing and up until their death.

Part 2) What types of lifestyles do these men have after the war is over?

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