Chapter 1: A noiseless Flash
Mr./Rev. Tanimoto
1. What happened at 8:15, August 6, 1945?
2. What kind of raid did most Hiroshima residents expect?
3. Who/What is “Mr. B”?
4. What kept Rev. Tanimoto up the night before the bombing?
5. Why did police recently question Mr. Tanimoto?
6. How many planes were detected by the radar that morning?
7. What was the first thing noticed when the bomb went off?
8. What protected Mr. Tanimoto from the blast?
Hatsuyo Nakamura
9. Why didn’t Hatsuyo move the children when the new air warning went off?
10. What were all the able-bodied girls asked to do?
11. What was her neighbor doing to his home?
12. How did Hatsuyo’s husband die?
13. How did Hatsuyo support herself and her children?
Dr. Masakazu Fujii
14. Why did Dr. Fujii get up early that morning?
15. Why are there extra beds in Japanese Hospitals?
16. What was Dr. Fujii’s single doctor hospital built next to?
17. Why had Dr. Fujii been turning patients away recently?
18. S[ecifically, what did the explosion do to his hospital?
19. How did Dr. Fujii keep from drowning?
Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge
20. What was Father Kleinsorge suffering from the morning of the blast?
21. What did Father Kleinsorge change into for air raid alerts?
22. What did the blast remind Kleinsorge of from his childhood?
Dr. Terufumi Sasaki
23. Why was Dr. Sasaki scolded by another doctor earlier?
24. What was Dr. Sasaki holding in his hand when the bomb exploded?
25. How many doctors in Sasaki’s hospital were unhurt?
Toshiko Sasaki
26. What was Toshiko in charge of at the factory?
27. What had a prominent local Navy man done recently?
28. What large objects were located behind Toshiko’s desk?
29. What injury did Toshiko suffer from in the blast?
Chapter 2: The Fire
1. What was designated as a temporary hospital in case of emergency?
2. What was falling out of the sky?
3. What was wrapped around Toshio’s (Hatsuyo’s son’s) feet?
4. What did Hatsuyo go back inside her wrecked home to retrieve?
5. What happened to her next-door neighbor tearing his house down?
6. Where did she stash her sewing machine?
7. What caused most of Hiroshima’s fires?
8. Where did Father Kleinsorge end up right after the blast?
9. How did Father Kleinsorge first try to pull Mrs. Hoshihima from the rubble?
10. What condition did Father Kleinsorge find his paper mache briefcase in?
11. What did Dr. Fujii realize would put him in great danger when he was trapped on the river?
12. Who ended up freeing Dr. Fujii?
13. What is a Molotoffano hanakago?
14. What did Dr. Fujii and Dr. Machii observe that puzzled them?
15. Where did Dr. Fujii take refuge from the fire?
16. Where did Dr. Sasaki finally obtain eyeglasses?
17. Out of a city of 245,000, how many were killed or “doomed with one blow?”
18. How long did Terufumi Sasaki estimate she was unconscious under the bookcases and rubble?
19. When the fires came, what decision did Father Kleinsorge have to make regarding those that were still trapped in the rubble?
20. What happened to Mr. Fukai after they dragged him away from his window?
21. What had the explosion done to clothing patterns on some of the victims?
22. White colors repelled the heat of a bomb. What did dark colors do?
23. What was the only thing Mr. Tanimoto could do as he ran past screaming people trapped in the rubble?
24. What did Mr. Tanimoto run into along the river?
25. What were injured people at the evacuation area calling for?
26. What provided Miss Sasaki shelter after she was pulled from the tin factory rubble?
27. What did Dr. Fujii examine on Dr. Machii’s daughter with great curiosity?
28. What did the refugees fear the Americans would do?
29. What happened when Mrs. Nakamura and her children drank from the river?
30. What, to Father Kleinsorge’s amazement, blast victims doing?
31. What was with the boat Mr. Tanimoto found?
32. What drove some of the refugees to the river?
33. What did the victims fear when it began to rain?
34. What ripped through the refugee’s park?
35. What did Mr. Tanimoto and Father Kleinsorge go into town for?
36. What did they eat that was roasted on a vine?
37. Why was the young woman, Mrs. Kamai, holding the dead infant?