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Hiroshima - Chapter 1

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Where is Hiroshima?
a)
China
b)
Korea
c)
Japan
2.
When was the atomic bomb dropped?
a)
1941
b)
1943
c)
1945
3.
Which other Japanese city was also destroyed by an atomic bomb?
a)
Nagasaki
b)
Tokyo
c)
Kyoto
4.
The first chapter's title: 'The Noiseless Flash', is a reference to what?
a)
A Japanese superhero
b)
The bright light from the explosion
c)
Photographers taking pictures
d)
The disease from the radiation
5.
Which character's husband was killed in the war?
a)
Miss Sasaki
b)
Mrs Nakamura
c)
Dr Fujii
d)
Dr Sasaki
6.

Who was Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto?

a)

A twenty-three-year-old surgeon with the Red Cross Hospital.

b)

A German priest who conducts mass in a small Hiroshima mission chapel.

c)

A physician who runs a private hospital on the banks of the Kyo River

d)

A Pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church

7.

Who was Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto?

a)

A twenty-three-year-old surgeon with the Red Cross Hospital.

b)

A German priest who conducts mass in a small Hiroshima mission chapel.

c)

A physician who runs a private hospital on the banks of the Kyo River

d)

A Pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church

8.

Who was Hatsuyo Nakamura?

a)

A widow of a tailor and mother of three who struggled to make her living by sewing

b)

A physician who runs a private hospital on the banks of the Kyo River

c)

A twenty-three-year-old surgeon with the Red Cross Hospital

d)

A clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works

9.

Who was Masakazu Fujii?

a)

A German priest who conducts mass in a small Hiroshima mission chapel

b)

A clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works

c)

A physician who runs a private hospital on the banks of the Kyo River

d)

A Pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church

10.

Who was Wilhelm Kleinsorge?

a)

A Pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church

b)

A widow of a tailor and mother of three who struggled to make her living by sewing

c)

A German priest who conducts mass in a small Hiroshima mission chapel

d)

A twenty-three-year-old surgeon with the Red Cross Hospital.

11.

Who was Terufumi Sasaki?

a)

A twenty-three-year-old surgeon with the Red Cross Hospital.

b)

A physician who runs a private hospital on the banks of the Kyo River

c)

A widow of a tailor and mother of three who struggled to make her living by sewing

d)

A clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works.

12.

Why were Japanese citizens becoming less concerned with the air raid warnings?

a)

There was never any warnings

b)

They happened all the time, so many stopped finding safety

c)

The warning sound was a calming noise

13.

The Japanese citizens used the name Mr. B to refer to what?

a)

The B - 29 planes

b)

The baker down the street

c)

The B shaped island off the coast of Japan

d)

The blimps used on D-Day

14.

Why was the Japanese government suspicious of Mr. Tanimoto sympathizing with the United States? Click all that apply.

a)

He has friends from America

b)

He was educated in the United States

c)

He spoke English very well

d)

He dressed in American clothes

15.

Why didn't Mrs. Nakamura move her children when the new air warning went off?

a)

She didn't hear it

b)

She had a broken leg

c)

She was tired and so were her children after recently returning from another one

d)

She didn't know where her children went so she didn't want to leave

16.

What was Dr. Fujii's single doctor hospital built next to?

a)

Hospital

b)

Ocean

c)

School

d)

River

17.

What did Father Kleinsorge change into for air raid alerts?

a)

A formal suit

b)

Military uniform

c)

A jacket to keep him warm

d)

Swimming suit

18.

How many doctors in Dr. Sasaki's hospital were unhurt?

a)

Everyone the wing he was in

b)

He was the only one unhurt

c)

He was the only one hurt

d)

There was no doctors unhurt

19.

What injury did Mrs. Sasaki suffer from in the blast?

a)

Her leg was crushed by a bookcase

b)

She was unhurt

c)

Her legs were crushed by a car

d)

She was flown into the river

20.

What was Mr. Tanimoto doing when the bomb exploded?

a)

Unloading clothes out of his car when the bomb went off Tanimoto threw himself in between to rocks

b)

At his mission house reading a Jesuit magazine and laying on a cot when the bomb was dropped

c)

He was sitting down at his private hospital when the bomb went off reading a newspaper

d)

Was delivering a Wasserman blood test when the bomb went off

21.

What was Mrs. Nakamura doing when the bomb exploded?

a)

delivering a Wasserman blood test when the bomb went off

b)

Sitting down and was turning her head to talk to a co-worker when it went off

c)

Watching her neighbor through her kitchen window when the bomb went off

d)

She was sitting down at her private hospital when the bomb went off reading a newspaper

22.

What was Dr. Fujii doing when the bomb exploded?

a)

At his mission house reading a Jesuit magazine and laying on a cot when the bomb was dropped

b)

He was sitting down at his private hospital when the bomb went off reading a newspaper

c)

delivering a Wasserman blood test when the bomb went off

d)

Sitting down and was turning his head to talk to a co-worker when it went off

23.

What was Wilhelm Kleinsorge doing when the bomb exploded?

a)

He was sitting down at his private hospital when the bomb went off reading a newspaper

b)

At his mission house reading a Jesuit magazine and laying on a cot when the bomb was dropped

c)

delivering a Wasserman blood test when the bomb went off

d)

Unloading clothes out of his car when the bomb went off Tanimoto threw himself in between to rocks

24.

What was Mr. Terufumi Sasaki doing when the bomb exploded?

a)

He was sitting down at his private hospital when the bomb went off reading a newspaper

b)

Unloading clothes out of his car when the bomb went off Tanimoto threw himself in between to rocks

c)

At his mission house reading a Jesuit magazine and laying on a cot when the bomb was dropped

d)

delivering a Wasserman blood test when the bomb went off

25.

What was Mrs. Toshiki Sasaki doing when the bomb exploded?

a)

Unloading clothes out of his car when the bomb went off Tanimoto threw himself in between to rocks

b)

Watching her neighbor through her kitchen window when the bomb went off

c)

She was sitting down at his private hospital when the bomb went off reading a newspaper

d)

Sitting down and was turning her head to talk to a co-worker when it went off