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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Panic Grass and Feverfew.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Father Kelinsorge go to the police station the day after the bombing?
(a) To ask if they could assist in bringing doctors to Asano Park.
(b) To find the parents of two little children.
(c) To fill out a claim form for property damage.
(d) To see if they needed any help.

2. What does the man who tries to rescue Miss Sasaki tell her?
(a) "Don't move! I'll return in an hour!"
(b) "I am too weak to get you out of here."
(c) "We have no men to help you! You'll have to get out by yourself."
(d) "If you hang onto my arm, I'll be able to pull you out."

3. What is a Molotov flower basket?
(a) The name the Japanese gave the atomic bomb.
(b) The name the Japanese gave the American bombers.
(c) The delicate Japanese name for B-29s.
(d) The delicate Japanese name for self-scattering cluster of bombs.

4. In Hiroshima, Father Kleinsorges is one of thousands of sufferers; in Tokyo...
(a) He is one of a million sufferers.
(b) He is a curiosity.
(c) He is one of a hundred sufferers.
(d) His case is very common.

5. What does Mr. Tanimoto have to keep consciously repeating to himself in order to get all the people across the river?
(a) "They are human beings."
(b) ""What if I was in their place?"
(c) "It's a great sin to leave them behind."
(d) "God will reward me."

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the climate in Asano Park?

2. After the bombing, at the Red Cross Hospital, Dr. Sasaki is...

3. When abnormally large drops of rain fall on the people at Asano Park, what does someone shout?

4. Why does Mr. Tanaka expect all the doctors of Hiroshima to come to him?

5. When is the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki?

(see the answer key)

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