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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concern is there about giving Father Kliensorge a blood transfusion?
(a) There isn't the proper equipment for blood transfusions for atomic bomb patients.
(b) Atomic bomb patients become sick during blood transfusions.
(c) He may receive badly poisoned blood from an atomic bomb survivor.
(d) Atomic bomb patients may not stop bleeding once needles are stuck in them.

2. What rumor is spread as a result of people feeling sick nearly a month after the atomic bomb?
(a) The atomic bomb gave off poison that will eat away at the victims' bodies for the next 7 years.
(b) The poison deposited by the atomic bomb is contagious.
(c) Anyone who was poisoned by the atomic bomb will live a miximum of 7 years.
(d) The atomic bomb had deposited some sort of poison on Hiroshima that will give off deadly emanations for 7 years.

3. Why does Mr. Tanaka send his daughter for Mr. Tanimoto, whom he hadn't been on good terms with?
(a) He knows he is dying and wants to ask Mr. Tanimoto to look after his daughter.
(b) He knows he is dying and is willing to be comforted by any religion.
(c) He wants to apologize for the way he had treated Mr. Tanimoto.
(d) He knows Mr. Tanimoto is good hearted and would assist him any way he could.

4. As symptoms of radiation disease reveal themselves, it becomes clear that many of them resemble the effects of...
(a) An overdose of x-rays.
(b) An overdose of gamma rays.
(c) An overdose of electromagnetic spectrum.
(d) An overdose of electromagnetic radiation.

5. What does Mr. Tanimoto have to keep consciously repeating to himself in order to get all the people across the river?
(a) ""What if I was in their place?"
(b) "God will reward me."
(c) "They are human beings."
(d) "It's a great sin to leave them behind."

6. A year after the bomb is dropped, Miss Sasaki is...
(a) A happy woman.
(b) Married.
(c) In a deep depression.
(d) A cripple.

7. What is the condition of one of the wounded people lying beside Miss Sasaki?
(a) A man has lost his arm.
(b) A woman has lost her breast.
(c) An old woman is nearly dead.
(d) A soldier's eye sockets are hollow from the burns.

8. At Asano Park, after Father Kleinsorge tries to settle down for the night, prays, and falls asleep, what wakes him up?
(a) People cheering after they'd heard they were going to be rescued.
(b) The mission keeper who asks him if he'd remembered to repeat his evening prayers.
(c) The nurse who asks him if he wants anything to eat.
(d) The sudden rainstorm.

9. Months after she is discharged from the hospital, what does Miss Sasaki prepare herself for?
(a) Getting married.
(b) Conversion to Catholicism.
(c) Searching for her siblings.
(d) Finding a job.

10. What does Dr. Sasaki feel should happen to the men who decided to use the bomb?
(a) They should come to Japan and witness the damage they did.
(b) They should be tried and hanged.
(c) They should be bombed themselves.
(d) They should be shot to death.

11. How do the Nakamura children react during the night at Asano Park?
(a) They are interested in everything that happens.
(b) They are frightnened by what is happening.
(c) They cough and vomit throughout the night.
(d) They cry throughout the night.

12. What is Miss Sasaki told before she is lifted to a relief station?
(a) She is told that her father, mother, and baby brother are dead.
(b) She is told that her parents survived, but her siblings are dead.
(c) She is told that her whole family has survived.
(d) She is told that her whole family is dead.

13. On August 15, who publicly speaks for the first time in Japanese history over the radio?
(a) The American president.
(b) The prime minister of Japan.
(c) The president of Japan.
(d) Hirohito, the Emperor Tenno.

14. Why doesn't Mrs. Nakamura see a doctor for her ailments?
(a) She is too poor.
(b) Her relative is a nurse who gives her the proper treatment.
(c) She doesn't feel she is sick enough.
(d) She is afraid of what the doctor may tell her.

15. How does Mrs. Nakamura react when her sewing machine is retrieved?
(a) She fears she is too ill to use it anyway.
(b) She is happy that it is still in good shape.
(c) She is frustrated that parts of it need to be fixed.
(d) She is disappointed that it is all rusted and useless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the Kataoka children, sister and brother, whom Father Kleinsorge finds?

2. The symptoms people came down with is a disease later to be known as...

3. On August 18th, what does Father Kleinsorge begin to feel as he walks halfway from the center of town?

4. A year after the bomb is dropped, what condition is Mr. Tanimoto's church in?

5. Who is the person Miss Sasaki thinks about while in the hospital?

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