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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. Almost no one in Hiroshima recalls...

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

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

5. How does Mrs. Nakamura's husband die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What puzzles Dr. Fujii and his doctor friend about what they see after the bombing?

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

5. Describe Dr. Fujii's private clinic.

6. What are the weather and conditions like as Dr. Fujii walks over the bridge after the bombing?

7. Describe Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge.

8. What is the atmosphere like at Asano Park?

9. Describe Dr. Terufumi Sasaki.

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

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

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 3

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?

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