Hiroshima
Study Guide
Directions: Fill in the questions while you are reading, as this will be both your discussion
guide and study guide for a quiz upon returning to school in the fall.
Chapter 1
1.What was Miss Toshinki Sasaki doing at the time the bomb was dropped?
2.What was Dr. Masakazu Fujii doing at the time the bomb was dropped?
3.What was Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura doing at the time the bomb was dropped?
4.What was Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge doing at the time the bomb was dropped?
5.What was Dr. Terufumi Sasaki doing at the time the bomb was dropped?
6.What was the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto doing at the time the bomb was dropped?
7.Who/What was Mr. B?
8.What happened at 8:15, August 6, 1945?
9.What kind of raid did most Hiroshima residents expect?
10.Why did the police recently question Mr. Tanimoto?
11.What was the first thing noticed when the bomb went off?
12.Why didn’t Hatsuyo Nakamura move the children when the siren went off?
13.What was Hatsuyo Nukamura’s neighbor doing to his home that morning?
14.What did the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima contain?
15.Why does Dr. Sasaki probably survive the blast?
Chapter 2
16.What was falling out of the sky after the bomb?
17.What did the residents of Hiroshima believe was the cause of all of the fires?
18.In case of an emergency, what was designated as a temporary hospital?
19.What type of injury did most of the victims of Hiroshima have?
20.How were the dying people near the river acting?
21.Out of 245,000 people in the city, how many were thought to have been instantly killed?
22.White colors repelled the heat of the bomb, what did dark colors do?
23.What did the victims fear when it began to rain?
24.Who did the victims of the bomb try to save? (Was it anyone they came upon or just
close family?)
Chapter 3
25.Who did Mr. Tanimoto find standing up to their necks in the water?
26.How many hours had Dr. Sasaki worked before he tried to sleep?
27.What was floating in the river?
28.What did Mr. Tanimoto realize when he saw what was floating in the river?
29.How many tons did this “new bomb” have an equivalency to?
30.About how many days passed before Miss Sasaki finally had her leg amputated?
31.What happened on August 9th?
32.How long had the woman mentioned in the chapter been holding her dead infant?
33.What was the greater moral responsibility the Japanese had than caring for the living?
34.What did the Emperor do that Mr. Tanimoto called “a wonderful blessing?”
Chapter 4
35.What was happening to Father Kleinsorge’s wounds that should have healed?
36.What happened to Mrs. Nakamura as she combed her hair?
37.What strange disease did many people come down with a few weeks after the bomb was
dropped?
38.What symptoms started showing up on people’s bodies?
39.What was the most useful therapy for the bomb victims?
40.What one feeling did the six survivors share?