Hiroshima Quizzes

Hiroshima Quiz 1

By Kathryn Gundersen · Edited by Aaron Suduiko · Last reviewed October 05, 2017

1 Which Magazine published John Hersey's Hiroshima?

The Atlantic

Newsweek

Time

The New Yorker
2 In what year was it published?

1923

1962

1946

1951
3 On what date was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima?

August 21, 1946

August 6, 1945

October 2, 1945

January 13, 1946
4 Which is NOT one of the six characters that this piece follows?

Miss Sasaki

Father Kleinsorge

Mr. Matsuo

Mr. Tanimoto
5 Where does Miss Sasaki work?

The Hiroshima Municipal Bank

The East India Company

East Asia Tin Works

Time Japan
6 Masaku Fujii is a...

automobile salesman

doctor in a private hospital

doctor at the Red Cross Hospital

Catholic priest
7 Wilhelm Kleinsorge is a...

German spy

Jesuit priest

prospector searching for gold

foreign journalist
8 Kiyoshi Tanimoto is a...

pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church

factory worker

Jesuit priest

doctor at the Red Cross Hospital
9 Terfumi Sasaki is a...

doctor at the Red Cross Hospital

doctor in a private hospital

pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church

factory worker
10 Before he died, Mrs. Nakamura's husband was a...

plumber

carpenter

newspaper salesman

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

Tamura

Nagoya

Kyo

Ushida
12 At which college in the U.S. did Mr. Tanimoto study?

Harvard College

Rice College

Williams College

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

1

3

2

4
14 Where did Mrs. Nakamura's husband die?

Germany

Seoul

Nanjing

Singapore
15 What is Mr. Tanimoto doing when the bomb hits?

moving important items outside of the city

saying his morning prayers

reading the newspaper

cleaning out his closet
16 What is Dr. Fujii doing when the bomb hits?

treating a patient

reading the newspaper

making his breakfast

swimming in the river
17 In which country did Dr. Sasaki train in medicine?

Germany

China

the United States

Korea
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

secretly treats other patients

attends classes at a university
19 What is Dr. Sasaki doing when the bomb hits?

wheeling a patient into surgery

checking a patient's vital signs

taking a blood test specimen to the laboratory

eating breakfast in the hospital canteen
20 What happens to Miss Sasaki when the bomb hits?

Shards of glass fly into her eye.

Her leg is crushed by a falling bookshelf.

She is thrown out into the street and hit by a car.

She falls out a third-story window.
21 Journalism that uses literary techniques to report a nonfiction story is called...

Revised Journalism

Prose Journalism

20th Century Journalism

New Journalism
22 Which nation dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?

France

The United States

Great Britain

Germany
23 What are the names of Mrs. Nakamura's children?

Tadashi, Ayana, and Kiyoshi

Naoki, Masaku, and Hatsuyo

Hiro, Aya, and Ren

Toshio, Yaeko, and Myeko
24 What does Mrs. Nakamura place in a tank of water before leaving her destroyed home?

a pair of shoes

her best china

a suitcase of valuables

her sewing machine
25 Who is not one of the priests in the Jesuit mission?

Father Kleinsorge

Father Schiffer

Father Cieslik

Father Wocjik