Multiple Choice Games for Hiroshima Day


1. Hiroshima memory:
a) When I was five, I thought a `hiroshima' was a plane.
b) When I was five, I thought a `hiroshima' was the
chrysanthemum on Japanese stamps.
c) When I was five, I pointed to a picture of the
mushroom cloud.  'What is that?' I asked.  'That,' said
my mother, is Hiroshima.'  


2. Hiroshima history:
a) Hiroshima was the gateway to Itaku-Shima, the
beautiful 'island of light.'
b) Hiroshima was the site of a haunting summer
festival.
c) Hiroshima was an important military centre. 


3. Hiroshima a-bomb triggers:
a) Suicidal Japanese soldiers caused the a-bombing 
of Hiroshima.
b) Dedicated American scientists caused the a-bombing 
of Hiroshima.
c) Patriotic American accountants caused the a-bombing 
of Hiroshima.


4. Hiroshima and good people:
a) A good person deplores radiation sickness.
b) A good person deplores killing anywhere. 
c) A good person deplores having had to kill Huns,
Nips, Nazis, skinheads, government agents, house
invaders anywhere. 


5. Hiroshima and Dresden:
a) What is different about Hiroshima and Dresden is
that Dresden could be seen to resemble Coventry.
b) What is different about Hiroshima and Dresden is
that there had been fewer Jews in Hiroshima. 
c) What is different about Hiroshima and Dresden is
that Germany didn't surrender ten days after.


6. Hiroshima and desperation:
a) During World War II more Japanese soldiers
suicided than were captured by the U.S. Army.
b) During World War II more Japanese soldiers were
captured than Japanese sailors were captured. 
c) When a warship is sinking it is sometimes difficult
to tell whether the sailors are suiciding or drowning. 


7. Hiroshima and optimism:
a) The good thing about the Hiroshima bomb was that
it taught children everywhere to make paper cranes.
b) The good thing about the Hiroshima bomb was that
it taught North Americans that individual humans
might live somewhere like Hiroshima.
c) The good thing about the Hiroshima bomb was that
it made world leaders think about the third world war
and forget the second.  


8. To establish justification for the bombing of
Hiroshima: 
a) Ask a crewmember of the 'Enola Gay.'
b) Ask a scientist from the Manhattan project.
c) Ask a CNN columnist.
d) Ask a Smithsonian curator.


9. Hiroshima and reporters:
a) Reports say the Japanese government was ready to
surrender.
b) Reports say the Japanese armed forces would have
never surrendered.
c) `Reports' can mean gunshots or a distant bomb
blasts.


10. Hiroshima and consequences:
a) The Hiroshima bomb wiped out family life at the
Shinomura Clock Factory.
b) The Hiroshima bomb wiped out the godliness of
Japanese emperors.
c) The Hiroshima bomb wiped out Professor Suzuki's
Japanese a-bomb program.
d) The Hiroshima bomb wiped out a herd of sheep in
Mountain Springs Utah. 


11. Hiroshima and power:
a) When the Hiroshima bomb was dropped Japan had
3.5 million soldiers on duty.
b) When the Hiroshima bomb was dropped, Japanese
troops controlled all of Borneo, most of China, all of
Korea, most of Thailand, all of Malaya, all of Viet
Nam.
c) When the Hiroshima bomb was dropped there were
three hundred and ninety thousand civilians in
Japanese internment camps. 
d) When the Hiroshima bomb was dropped, a
Japanese-Canadian spacecraft could be observed
observing at a safe distance.


12. Hiroshima and good things:
a) the good thing about the Hiroshima bomb is that it
helped ordinary Japanese people not feel guilty about
comfort women or medical experiments on Chinese
prisoners.
b) the good thing about the Hiroshima bomb is that it
helped humanity enjoy 50 years without fighting and
killing.
c) the good thing about the Hiroshima bomb is that it
helped Americans feel guilty about being winners.


13. Hiroshima and Canada:
a) Canadians and Belgians supplied uranium for the
a-bomb and this makes them immoral.
b) Canadians and Belgians supplied uranium for the
a-bomb but trusted the United States to act morally
because they had studied United States history. 
c) Canadians and Belgians should not have supplied
uranium for the a-bomb because they had read
Huckleberry Finn.  
d) Canadians and Belgians supplied uranium for the
a-bomb because they shared certain public policies
with the United States and Japan on the treatment of
other races.  


14. Hiroshima and technology:
a) The people who died in the bombing of Tokyo are
just as dead as those who died in Hiroshima.
b) The people who died at Nanking are just as dead as
those who died in the bombing of Tokyo.
c) The people who died at Auschwitz are just as dead
as those who died at Hiroshima.
d) The people who died at Hiroshima are just as dead
as those who died at Guernica. 


15. Hiroshima and love:
a) The best thing about the Hiroshima bomb is that it
brought the Japanese and American people together.
b) The best thing about the Hiroshima bomb is that,
although long exploded, it is still here.   
c) The best thing about the Hiroshima bomb is
Hiroshima mon amour. 


16. Hiroshima and you:
a) When I was five, I thought wars were fought by
soldiers.
b) When I was five, I thought tanks, bombers, and
battleships were beautiful.
c) When I was five, I thought black-out curtains were
a part of B.C. architecture. 
d) When I was five, I thought the end of a war was a
good thing.