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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. In trying to rebuild the city, what is the Planning Conference in Hiroshima at a loss to?

2. What does Dr. Fujii end up doing with regards to his work?

3. As symptoms of radiation disease reveal themselves, it becomes clear that many of them resemble the effects of...

4. What does the women holding the dead baby keep requesting of Mr. Tanimoto?

5. What do the civilians hear on the radio that brings them tears?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the views of the people of Hiroshima about the ethics of using the bomb?

3. What is Dr. Fujii doing a month after the bombing?

4. Who does Mr. Tanimoto keep trying to avoid at the park?

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

6. What happens to Father Kleinsorge's physical condition a few weeks after the bombing?

7. How do the Japanese react to their Emperor's radio broadcast?

8. By mid-September, what is Dr. Sasaki's condition at the Red Cross Hospital?

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

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

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

"There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books," the words at the end of Chapter 1. What is the author saying about technology and the atomic age in this quotation? Cite three examples that prove your theory.

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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