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Michihiko Hachiya, from Hiroshima Diary

Michihiko Hachiya, from Hiroshima Diary

Read from Hiroshima Diary and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. How does Hachiya remember the moment immediately before the bomb was dropped?

as a stormy evening with numerous flashes of lightning and deafening thunder

as a beautiful and quiet early August morning

as an uncomfortably humid afternoon

as a frigid, snowbound February morning, just at sunrise

2. In addition to needing medical care, for what other reason do Hachiya and his wife head for the hospital?

The civil defense agency is located at the hospital, and Hachiya is a bomb warden.

The basement of the hospital is the designated bomb shelter for their area.

They surmise that the newly built structure has withstood the blast.

Hachiya is a medical doctor, and it is his duty to be at the hospital.

3. Running through his neighbor’s house and into the street, Hachiya stumbles over what object?

a stone lantern

a fallen ceiling fan

a fire hose

a man’s head

4. Which of the following phenomena was characteristic of the blast for those who were near the hypocenter?

The blast changed the temperature.

The blast made no sound.

The blast emanated a blue light.

The blast caused a torrential rainstorm.

5. Which of the following was not a symptom of all the patients brought to the hospital after the blast?

nausea

diarrhea

burns

vomiting