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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Details are Being Investigated.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At Asano Park, after Father Kleinsorge tries to settle down for the night, prays, and falls asleep, what wakes him up?
(a) The nurse who asks him if he wants anything to eat.
(b) The mission keeper who asks him if he'd remembered to repeat his evening prayers.
(c) People cheering after they'd heard they were going to be rescued.
(d) The sudden rainstorm.

3. What does Mr. Tanimoto do after the people at the park are promised to receive help?
(a) He resumes ferrying the wounded across the river.
(b) He tries to keep everyone in the park calm and collective.
(c) He helps settle people in for the night.
(d) He falls asleep, exhausted.

4. How many people in Hiroshima are killed by the atomic bomb?
(a) Two hundred and fifty thousand.
(b) A hundred thousand.
(c) Three hundred thousand.
(d) Two hundred thousand.

5. In Chapter 3, when Mr. Tanimoto reaches down to the river and takes a woman by the hand, what sickens him so much that he has to sit down?
(a) Her bones break through her skin.
(b) He hears her joints disconnecting from each other.
(c) Her skin slips off in huge, glovelike pieces.
(d) Her hands are as hard as clay.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it several days before the survivors of Hiroshima know about the bomb dropped on Hiroshima?

2. What does one of the two girls who Mr. Tanimoto rescues keep complaining about?

3. What does the first army doctor who sees Miss Sasaki say?

4. What is one of the reasons that people pour into Asano Park?

5. What does Mr. Tanaka do as Mr. Tanimoto reads the psalm?

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