Hiroshima Quizzes

Hiroshima Quiz 1

1 Which Magazine published John Hersey's Hiroshima?
Time

The Atlantic

The New Yorker

Newsweek
2 In what year was it published?
1946

1951

1923

1962
3 On what date was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima?
August 6, 1945

January 13, 1946

October 2, 1945

August 21, 1946
4 Which is NOT one of the six characters that this piece follows?
Miss Sasaki

Father Kleinsorge

Mr. Tanimoto

Mr. Matsuo
5 Where does Miss Sasaki work?
East Asia Tin Works

The Hiroshima Municipal Bank

Time Japan

The East India Company
6 Masaku Fujii is a...
doctor in a private hospital

doctor at the Red Cross Hospital

automobile salesman

Catholic priest
7 Wilhelm Kleinsorge is a...
foreign journalist

German spy

Jesuit priest

prospector searching for gold
8 Kiyoshi Tanimoto is a...
pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church

factory worker

doctor at the Red Cross Hospital

Jesuit priest
9 Terfumi Sasaki is a...
pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church

factory worker

doctor at the Red Cross Hospital

doctor in a private hospital
10 Before he died, Mrs. Nakamura's husband was a...
carpenter

newspaper salesman

plumber

tailor
11 Mr. Tanimoto's wife has been commuting to spend nights in what suburb of Hiroshima?
Ushida

Tamura

Kyo

Nagoya
12 At which college in the U.S. did Mr. Tanimoto study?
Williams College

Harvard College

Rice College

Emory College
13 How many children does Mrs. Nakamura have?
1

4

3

2
14 Where did Mrs. Nakamura's husband die?
Nanjing

Seoul

Singapore

Germany
15 What is Mr. Tanimoto doing when the bomb hits?
saying his morning prayers

cleaning out his closet

reading the newspaper

moving important items outside of the city
16 What is Dr. Fujii doing when the bomb hits?
treating a patient

swimming in the river

reading the newspaper

making his breakfast
17 In which country did Dr. Sasaki train in medicine?
Germany

China

Korea

the United States
18 What does Dr. Sasaki do in the evenings when he returns home from work?
chats with his next door neighbor

makes his parents dinner

attends classes at a university

secretly treats other patients
19 What is Dr. Sasaki doing when the bomb hits?
taking a blood test specimen to the laboratory

checking a patient's vital signs

wheeling a patient into surgery

eating breakfast in the hospital canteen
20 What happens to Miss Sasaki when the bomb hits?
Her leg is crushed by a falling bookshelf.

She falls out a third-story window.

Shards of glass fly into her eye.

She is thrown out into the street and hit by a car.
21 Journalism that uses literary techniques to report a nonfiction story is called...
Revised Journalism

New Journalism

Prose Journalism

20th Century Journalism
22 Which nation dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
France

Germany

Great Britain

The United States
23 What are the names of Mrs. Nakamura's children?
Tadashi, Ayana, and Kiyoshi

Naoki, Masaku, and Hatsuyo

Toshio, Yaeko, and Myeko

Hiro, Aya, and Ren
24 What does Mrs. Nakamura place in a tank of water before leaving her destroyed home?
her sewing machine

her best china

a suitcase of valuables

a pair of shoes
25 Who is not one of the priests in the Jesuit mission?
Father Kleinsorge

Father Schiffer

Father Cieslik

Father Wocjik