The story "Noiselss flash"?

Question

Question 1: A man theme of the story is that
a. chance alone determines who survived the attack
b. many individuals anticipated the nuclear holocaust
c. people respond methodically in emergencies
d. all people suffer equally in war


Question 2: If the story had been written subjectively, the author
a. would not have been concerned with facts
b. could have clearly expresed his own opinions
c. could not have used quatations
d. would have had to use the first person point of view

Answer 1

I dont know whether you are Trisha who asked a similar question earlier! I suspect it should be under homework thread though.
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Well, what about this:

1. C (A and B are definitely incorrect D is not right because of "equally"). The six survived because of chance, fate etc).
2.B.

Here's why:

It is early morning on August 6, 1945, in Hiroshima, Japan. At 7:00 a.m. a loud siren warns of an impending American bombing raid. The “all-clear siren” sounds an hour later. At 8:15 a.m. Japanese time, an atomic bomb is dropped from an American airplane on the 245,000 residents of this city. The bomb kills 100,000 people, but others survive by chance, by fate, by decisions made in a moment, and by being in fortuitous locations. Six of the survivors—separated by miles and minutes—do not realize at the time that a massive bomb has destroyed much of the city and has killed thousands in a split second.

Author John Hersey follows these six survivors and relates their experiences. They are Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works; Dr. Masakazu Fujii, a medical doctor who is reading on the porch of his residence; Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, a tailor’s widow, who is listening to the silence of her sleeping children and watching a neighbor’s house; Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, who is reading on the third floor of the mission house; Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, a young surgeon at the Red Cross Hospital, who is walking through the hospital’s corridor with a blood specimen in his hand; and the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Methodist minister, who is unloading his daughter’s belongings at the home of a friend.

Each of the six survivors describes his or her experience. Each survivor is described by his or her actions, location, and position after the bomb detonates. Early that morning, the Reverend Tanimoto and a friend push a handcart through the city streets, moving some belongings of Tanimoto’s daughter to an area called Koi. When the bomb detonates, the minister’s face is turned away from the city. But he feels pressure, and then splinters, boards, and fragments of tile from the nearby house landing on him.


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