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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Fujii do once his injuries begin to make progress?
(a) He leaves the city to go live with relatives.
(b) He keeps to himself.
(c) He offers to assist patients at the Red Cross Hospital.
(d) He treats refugees who come to him from the neighborhood.

2. What does the rumor being spread about the atomic bomb do to Mrs. Nakamura and her children?
(a) The rumor makes them wish they had died the moment the bomb dropped.
(b) The rumor makes them feel more resigned and passive about the moral issue of the atomic bomb.
(c) The rumor arouses more hatred and resentment of America than they had felt all through the war.
(d) The rumor makes them lose all hope of ever regaining their normal lives.

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

4. On August 18th, what does Father Kleinsorge use his suitcase for?
(a) He uses it to store his own money.
(b) He uses it to carry important documents to the police station.
(c) He uses it to carry his personal belongings to a safe place.
(d) He uses it to carry the yen belonging to the Society of Jesus to the bank.

5. What does a shortwave rebroadcast announcement by the President of the United States do?
(a) It identifies the new bomb as atomic.
(b) It identifies the number of people the bomb killed.
(c) It expresses sympathy for the citizens who were killed and wounded.
(d) It warns of another bomb expected to hit Japan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Dr. Sasaki about seven months after the bombing?

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

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

4. What does the news that was heard on the radio August 15 convey?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Miss Sasaki think about while at the hospital and why?

7. Describe Mr. Tanaka.

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

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

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

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