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Song for Nagasaki - DJO Novel Approach

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Takashi Nagai rushed home from medical school after receiving a __________ stating that ___________.

a)

Phone call; his home was destroyed

b)

Telegram; his mother was dying

c)

Package; he needed to save the items

d)

Strange visitor; he was in danger

2.

Who greatly inspired Nagai's conversion?

a)

Kant

b)

Pascal

c)

Hume

d)

Hegel

3.

Nagai sought to board with a Catholic family, the ______, when he began exploring his faith.

a)

Nguyen's

b)

Takashi's

c)

Khan's

d)

Moriyama's

4.

The Chinese dragon is a symbol of ______________.

a)

Transformation

b)

Life

c)

Revenge

d)

Love

5.

One of Nagai's professors referred to the twenty-six martyrs of Nagasaki as ________.

a)

Brave

b)

Ignorant

c)

Heroic

d)

Fanatics

6.

"Faith is a gift from God ... you must pray for it." Who said this quote that both inspired and terrified Nagai?

a)

Jesus

b)

Pascal

c)

One of the martyrs of Nagasaki

d)

Paul Miki

7.

In Japanese culture (and as seen in Chapter 5), a ____________ is a man who changes his surname to his wife's, if she does not have brothers.

a)

Mu

b)

Chokata

c)

Yoshi

d)

Midori

8.

In his martyrdom, Paul Miki sang his farewell song - Psalm 31. What does Psalm 31 say?

a)

Blessed are those who suffer ...

b)

I fear no evil, for Thou art with me.

c)

Talitha koum.

d)

Lord, into Your hands I commend my spirit.

9.

The only religious artifact that was not destroyed at the Urakami Cathedral was ____________.

a)

A statue of Mary, the Sorrowful Mother

b)

The altar

c)

Portraits of the saints

d)

Baptismal fount

10.

In Chapter 26, Nagai mentioned that his favorite scientists "were the free men, who gazed at creation with humility and understanding." Who were they?

a)

Hobbes, Locke, Machiavelli

b)

Darwin, Einstein, Edison

c)

Pascal, Copernicus, Mendel

d)

Freud, Stevenson, Wittgenstein

11.

According to Nagai, the Japanese have the most in common with the _______ because _____________.

a)

Chinese; they value their culture and traditions

b)

Americans; they fight to preserve their rights & freedoms

c)

English; they have a high regard for their societal structure

d)

Germans; their painstaking, methodical and orderly ways

12.

In Chapter 3, Nagai detailed what he believed in at the beginning of his medical studies. His beliefs were in:

a)

Science

b)

Humanity

c)

Japan

d)

All of the above

13.

According to A Song for Nagasaki, it is not uncommon for a scientist, politician, admiral, or a seamstress to be an accomplished ______.

a)

Poet

b)

Businessman

c)

Teacher

d)

Artist

14.

What happened as a result of the execution of the Christian martyrs?

a)

The prestige of Christianity rose dramatically

b)

The number of baptisms increased

c)

Samurais and peasants alike sought baptism

d)

All of the above

15.

Chapter 31 details the death of Dr. Nagai. What ultimately caused his death?

a)

Exposure to mesothelioma

b)

Heart failure due to leukemia

c)

Heart attack from clogged arteries

d)

Massive tumors