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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What falls on Miss Sasaki's legs after the bomb drops?
(a) A bookcase.
(b) A statue.
(c) A table.
(d) An office desk.

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

3. What does Dr. Terufumi Sasaki do without a permit?
(a) He sells medicine.
(b) He charges his patients.
(c) He treats patients with illnesses he is not an expert in.
(d) He visits a few sick people.

4. What does Mr. Fukai, the Secretary of the diocese, keep saying while he's being rescued?
(a) "I must save this building."
(b) "I must find my family."
(c) "I don't want to die."
(d) "Leave me here to die."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the huge drops of water falling from the sky?

2. What is Mr. Hatsuyo Nakamura doing when the bomb drops?

3. Why does Miss Toshiko Sasaki wake up at three A.M. the morning the bomb is dropped?

4. What is Miss Sasaki's neighbor at the factory mistaken about?

5. What it something Dr. Fujii feel despite the misery all around him?

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