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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the Kataoka children, sister and brother, whom Father Kleinsorge finds?
(a) They die.
(b) They are returned to their mother.
(c) They have to be separated.
(d) It is discovered that their entire family is dead.

2. For more than a month, Dr. Sasaki works...
(a) Without having any glasses.
(b) With a badly injured leg.
(c) With a badly injured arm.
(d) Wearing someone else's glasses.

3. How does Mrs. Nakamura react when her sewing machine is retrieved?
(a) She is happy that it is still in good shape.
(b) She is frustrated that parts of it need to be fixed.
(c) She fears she is too ill to use it anyway.
(d) She is disappointed that it is all rusted and useless.

4. Almost no one in Hiroshima recalls...
(a) Having heard any sirens warning of the bomb hours prior to the bombing.
(b) Having heard people calling to be rescued.
(c) Having heard the all clear sounding.
(d) Having heard any noise of the bomb.

5. On what day is the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) August 26, 1945.
(b) August 1, 1945.
(c) August 6, 1945.
(d) August 16, 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the women holding the dead baby keep requesting of Mr. Tanimoto?

2. Where does Dr. Sasaki work?

3. What ends up happening to Mr. Fukai, the Japanese secretary of the diocese?

4. What do Mr. Tanimoto and Father Kleinsorge eat from the garden on the way to the shelter?

5. What experience is for Dr. Sasaki more important than the bombing?

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