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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 Mrs. Nakamura do with the sewing machine prior to leaving her home?

2. Almost no one in Hiroshima recalls...

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

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

5. In Chapter 2, after the bombing, why does Mr. Tanimoto run towards the city when everyone else is running out?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Dr. Terufumi Sasaki.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Describe Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

John Hersey describes the characters as having "good" or "bad" luck.

1. Does this attitude of having "good" or "bad" luck belong to the particular characters' views or is it the author's description? Cite three examples that support your theory.

2. Which characters in the book may, or are likely to, accept the concept of you make your own luck, and why?

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 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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