Hiroshima Questions
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Reverend Mr. Tanimoto | This person gave the opening prayer for the afternoon session of the U.S. Senate on February 5, 1951. |
| Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge | This person witnessed a group of soldiers whose eyes were melted in their sockets. |
| Dr. Terufumi Sasaki | This person was diagnosed with lung cancer. |
| Reverend Mr. Tanimoto | This person appeared on the television show "This Is Your Life." |
| Miss Toshiko Sasaki | This person found he/she had a gift for providing comfort and solace for those who were about to die. |
| Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura | Thanks to a Quaker professor from America, this person was able to rent a decent home for a dollar a month. |
| Reverend Mr. Tanimoto | This person was given a green Cadillac that he/she got into a little trouble driving. |
| Dr. Masakazu Fujii | This person accompanied the Hiroshima maidens on a trip to New York where he/she served as guide and interpreter. |
| Reverend Mr. Tanimoto | This person was anonymously given an infant to raise. |
| Reverend Mr. Tanimoto | This person experienced incredible good luck when he/she coincidentally ran into his/her spouse and child in the chaotic aftermath of the bombing. |
| Dr. Terufumi Sasaki | This person's spouse died of breast cancer. |
| Dr. Masakazu Fujii | This person lost a niece who lived with him/her. |
| Reverend Mr. Tanimoto | This person was the farthest (of the six characters) to the center of the bomb at a distance of approximately two miles (or 3,500 yards). |
| Dr. Terufumi Sasaki | This person had a reputation of being a very bad boy, a "tomcat" when he was young. |
| Dr. Terufumi Sasaki | This person was living in the country and commuting into Hiroshima for work when the bomb was dropped. |
| Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura | This person was the closest to the center of the bomb at a location of 3/4 mile (1,350 yards) |
| Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge | In his/her later years, this person was attended by Satsue Yoshiki who acted as a cook/part-daughter/part-mother and was by the side of this person when he/she died. |
| Dr. Terufumi Sasaki | This person worked in the Red Cross Hospital, then later on his/her own in a private hospital, borrowing and making large sums of money. |
| Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge | This person was in and out of the hospital for "a classic case of A-bomb sickness in which a person's body developed a rich repertory of symptoms, as well as for infected fingers, cataracts, and a back operation." |
| Reverend Mr. Tanimoto | This person met Robert Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay. |
| Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura | This person depended upon a sewing machine for his/her livelihood for a time. |
| Dr. Masakazu Fujii | This person had bad luck when it came to water, almost drowning once and living in a residence lost to flooding. |
| Reverend Mr. Tanimoto | This person traveled widely in the United States to raise money for his/her church. |
| Dr. Masakazu Fujii | This person was the owner of a single-doctor hospital at the beginning of the story. |
| Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge | This person thought that divine providence had spared his/her church's money and records from destruction by the bomb. |
| Dr. Masakazu Fujii | This person mysteriously fell into a coma and lived as a vegetable for 11 years. |
| Reverend Mr. Tanimoto | This person worked tirelessly for peace for the rest of his/her life. |
| Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura | This person commented about the bomb, "Shikata ga nai," which means "it cannot be helped." |
| Dr. Masakazu Fujii | This person was absorbed in the acquisition of material things and living the "good life." |
| Miss Toshiko Sasaki | This person was left abandoned for two days in a lean-to with two other injured bomb victims where after awhile it began to smell quite bad. |
| Dr. Terufumi Sasaki | At a dinner in his/her honor, this person says, "I shall not dwell on the past. It is as if I had been given a spare life when I survived the A-bomb. But I prefer not to look back. I shall keep moving forward." |
| Dr. Masakazu Fujii | This person "succumbed to the Japanese baseball mania, took up golf, and joined the exclusive Hiroshima Country Club. |
| Dr. Masakazu Fujii | This person may have tried to commit suicide, but there is no definitive proof one way or another. . |
| Dr. Terufumi Sasaki | This person wore a borrowed pair of glasses for over a month so that he/she could continue working. |
| Miss Toshiko Sasaki | This person worked in an orphanage for a time so that he/she could be close to his/her siblings. |
| Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura | This person suffered from the loss of all of his/her hair shortly after the bombing. |
| Reverend Mr. Tanimoto | This person's first act after the explosion was to help an elderly woman carrying a small boy. |
| Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge | This person was taken to a hospital with a note that read, "Think twice before you give this [person] blood transfusions, because with atomic-bomb patients we aren't at all sure that if you stick needles in them, they'll stop bleeding." |
| Dr. Masakazu Fujii | This person helped free two trapped nurses after the explosion. |
| Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge | This person sat next to Dr. Fujii on a train ride and they exchanged stories together. |
| Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura | This person was a tailor's widow. |
| Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge | This person became a Japanese citizen and changed his/her name. |
| Miss Toshiko Sasaki | This person's parents died in the bombing. |
| Dr. Masakazu Fujii | This person's family quarreled over his/her property and "a mother sued a son." |
| Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura | This person worked at the Suyama Chemical Company making mothballs. |
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