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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Aftermath.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Nakamura do as soon as everything turns white?
(a) She hides beneath the bed.
(b) She kneels down and covers her head.
(c) She turns towards her children.
(d) She runs outside.

2. What did Mrs. Nakamura's deceased husband do for a living?
(a) He was a clerk.
(b) He was a surgeon.
(c) He was a tailor.
(d) He was a government official.

3. After 19 straight hours of gruesome work, what does Dr. Sasaki and other survivors of the hospital staff do?
(a) They leave the hospital.
(b) They go behind the hospital to eat some biscuits and rice balls.
(c) They break up in search of other doctors.
(d) They lay down in hiding behind the hospital to catch some sleep.

4. In the afternoon of the third day after the bombing, what does Dr. Sasaki become obsessed with?
(a) The fact that 100,000 people were killed within an instant.
(b) The idea that such horrific act as the atomic bomb could take place.
(c) The idea that his mother thinks he is dead.
(d) The idea that he is contaminated with radioactivity.

5. Why does the Jesuit's mission house remain standing after the bombing?
(a) Its concrete was extroardinarily thick.
(b) It used to be a shelter.
(c) It was braced and double braced.
(d) No one knows.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a roar of approaching planes is heard at Asano Park, the baker commands people to take off garments having what color?

2. At the Red Cross Hospital, how many doctors are available for ten thousand patients?

3. What is Dr. Terufumi Sasaki doing when the bomb drops?

4. After the bombing, what two feeling predominate the citizens of Hiroshima for the Americans?

5. Where does Dr. Fujii work?

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