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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 isn't Mr. Tanimoto able to bring a doctor to Asano Park?
(a) Doctors elsewhere have thousands of their own wounded to care for.
(b) The doctors he meets are badly wounded themselves.
(c) He can't find any.
(d) The doctors tell him there is no hope in saving those who are wounded by the bomb.

2. What does NOT happen to the people at Asano Park?
(a) They vomit.
(b) Their hair falls off.
(c) They have serious burns.
(d) They die.

3. Before the bomb falls, what does everyone in Hiroshima expect to suffer?
(a) Massive B-29 raids.
(b) The atomic bomb.
(c) Poison gas.
(d) A hydrogen bomb.

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

5. On August 7th, what radio broadcast announcement do the Japanese make?
(a) "It is believed that a new type of bomb was used on Hiroshima. The details are being investigated."
(b) "The bomb used by the Americans had more power than twenty thousand tons of TNT."
(c) "The bomb has left few survivors."
(d) "The bomb used by the Americans had two thousand times the blast power of the British Grand Slam, which is the largest bomb yet used in the history of wartime."

Short Answer Questions

1. By February 1946, what condition is Miss Sasaki in when Father Kleinsorge visits her?

2. Mrs. Nakamura dresses her children in everything except for...

3. Who helps Mrs. Nakamura free the children?

4. What do Japanese scientists announce after having investigated Hiroshima?

5. In Chapter 2, the author writes that most people in Hiroshima were too busy or too weary or too badly hurt to do what?

(see the answer key)

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