WorksheetsSong for Nagasaki - DJO Novel Approach
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Takashi Nagai rushed home from medical school after receiving a __________ stating that ___________.
Phone call; his home was destroyed
Telegram; his mother was dying
Package; he needed to save the items
Strange visitor; he was in danger
Who greatly inspired Nagai's conversion?
Kant
Pascal
Hume
Hegel
Nagai sought to board with a Catholic family, the ______, when he began exploring his faith.
Nguyen's
Takashi's
Khan's
Moriyama's
The Chinese dragon is a symbol of ______________.
Transformation
Life
Revenge
Love
One of Nagai's professors referred to the twenty-six martyrs of Nagasaki as ________.
Brave
Ignorant
Heroic
Fanatics
"Faith is a gift from God ... you must pray for it." Who said this quote that both inspired and terrified Nagai?
Jesus
Pascal
One of the martyrs of Nagasaki
Paul Miki
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.
Mu
Chokata
Yoshi
Midori
In his martyrdom, Paul Miki sang his farewell song - Psalm 31. What does Psalm 31 say?
Blessed are those who suffer ...
I fear no evil, for Thou art with me.
Talitha koum.
Lord, into Your hands I commend my spirit.
The only religious artifact that was not destroyed at the Urakami Cathedral was ____________.
A statue of Mary, the Sorrowful Mother
The altar
Portraits of the saints
Baptismal fount
In Chapter 26, Nagai mentioned that his favorite scientists "were the free men, who gazed at creation with humility and understanding." Who were they?
Hobbes, Locke, Machiavelli
Darwin, Einstein, Edison
Pascal, Copernicus, Mendel
Freud, Stevenson, Wittgenstein
According to Nagai, the Japanese have the most in common with the _______ because _____________.
Chinese; they value their culture and traditions
Americans; they fight to preserve their rights & freedoms
English; they have a high regard for their societal structure
Germans; their painstaking, methodical and orderly ways
In Chapter 3, Nagai detailed what he believed in at the beginning of his medical studies. His beliefs were in:
Science
Humanity
Japan
All of the above
According to A Song for Nagasaki, it is not uncommon for a scientist, politician, admiral, or a seamstress to be an accomplished ______.
Poet
Businessman
Teacher
Artist
What happened as a result of the execution of the Christian martyrs?
The prestige of Christianity rose dramatically
The number of baptisms increased
Samurais and peasants alike sought baptism
All of the above
Chapter 31 details the death of Dr. Nagai. What ultimately caused his death?
Exposure to mesothelioma
Heart failure due to leukemia
Heart attack from clogged arteries
Massive tumors
