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

2. What are the people at Asano Park promised by a young officer?

3. Why does Father Kelinsorge go to the police station the day after the bombing?

4. Why does Mr. Tanaka expect all the doctors of Hiroshima to come to him?

5. To the Japanese, what is a greater moral responsibility than adequate care of the living?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Mr. Tanimoto see when he awakes in the first light of dawn, the first morning after the bombing?

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

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

5. After he feels better, why is Father Kleinsorge able to enjoy himself at the hospital in Tokyo?

6. How does Miss Sasaki spend the first night of the bombing?

7. Outside, what is the condition of the Red Cross Hospital?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hiroshima bomb victims experience various types of discrimination.

1. Discuss which characters suffered the most discrimination and describe the type of discrimination they experienced.

2. How did some of the characters overcome the discrimination shown to the atomic bomb victims?

3. Did the discrimination continue with the next generation, the victims' children, or did society change its views by then? Cite three examples that support your theory.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

The dropping of the atomic bomb causes the world to strongly react to avoid another similar catastrophe. Describe the various types of peace organizations that were established after the war, what their purposes were, and and whether or not they accomplished what they set out to do.

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