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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Noiseless Flash.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mrs. Nakamura's deceased husband do for a living?
(a) He was a government official.
(b) He was a tailor.
(c) He was a clerk.
(d) He was a surgeon.

2. What is Miss Toshinki doing when the bomb drops?
(a) She has just approached her boss to ask for a raise.
(b) She has just turned her head to chat with the girl at the next desk.
(c) She has just lifted some papers off her desk.
(d) She has just grabbed a cup of coffee and is heading towards her desk.

3. Why does the Jesuit's mission house remain standing after the bombing?
(a) No one knows.
(b) Its concrete was extroardinarily thick.
(c) It used to be a shelter.
(d) It was braced and double braced.

4. What is the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto doing when the bomb drops?
(a) He is about to take a long walk in the suburbs.
(b) He is about to unload a cart of clothes at a rich man's home in the suburbs.
(c) He is about to deliver a cart of food at an old man's home in the suburbs.
(d) He is about to knock on the door of a relative's home who lives in the suburbs.

5. How many people in Hiroshima are killed by the atomic bomb?
(a) Two hundred thousand.
(b) Two hundred and fifty thousand.
(c) A hundred thousand.
(d) Three hundred thousand.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Almost no one in Hiroshima recalls...

3. What is Mrs. Halsuyo Nakamura's profession?

4. What do the six survivors in Hiroshima, who John Hersey writes about, still wonder?

5. Why does Miss Toshiko Sasaki wake up at three A.M. the morning the bomb is dropped?

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