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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 happens to Mr. Tanimoto's health a few weeks after the bombing?

2. What does the doctor tell Mother Superior about Father Kleinsorge?

3. What does a young man who is staying at the same hospital as that of Miss Sasaki give her?

4. How does Mrs. Nakamura react when her sewing machine is retrieved?

5. On August 18th, what does Father Kleinsorge use his suitcase for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Nakamura children spend the night at Asano Park the day of the bombing?

2. By midsummer, Mrs. Nakamura's savings are gone. How then does she survive?

3. What are the Japanese physicists' concern about the bomb and what do they do about it?

4. What makes Father Kleinsorge a little hysterical, wanting to cry after feeling thirsty in the dreadful heat?

5. After Mr. Tanimoto rescues the people from the sandpit, what stirs his rage?

6. In trying to rescue the 20 or so men and women in the sandpit, what makes Mr. Tanimoto sick?

7. What happens to Mrs. Nakamura's physical condition a few weeks after the bombing?

8. What in particular makes Miss Sasaki uneasy when she sees the ruins of Hiroshima for the first time?

9. What affect does Father Kleinsorge's answers to Miss Sasaki's questions about life have on her health?

10. How does President Truman describe the atomic bomb during his radio announcement?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Miss Sasaki and Mrs. Nakamura are the two women among the six main characters.

Part 1) Compare and contrast the characters of Miss Sasaki and Mrs. Nakamura. How are they different? How are they the same?

Part 2) What are Mrs. Nakamura's major struggles following the bombing? What are Miss Sasaki's major struggles? How do these women's lives turn out in the end?

Part 3) How would Mrs. Nakamura's life and Miss Sasaki's life been different had they had men in their lives?

Essay Topic 2

After the bomb drops, Dr. Sasaki and Mr. Tanimoto put a great deal of efforts in helping others.

Part 1) Compare and contrast the characters of Dr. Sasaki and the Reverend Mr. Tanimoto. How are they the same? How are they different?

Part 2) In general, who works harder, Dr. Sasaki or Mr. Tanimoto? Cite three examples from the book to support your case.

Part 3) How are the two men affected differently/similarly by what happens to Hiroshima? Cite examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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