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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. Who eventually comes looking for Miss Sasaki and finds her?
(a) Father Nagatsuka.
(b) Mr. Fukai.
(c) Her siblings.
(d) Her friends.

2. 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) He hears her joints disconnecting from each other.
(b) Her skin slips off in huge, glovelike pieces.
(c) Her hands are as hard as clay.
(d) Her bones break through her skin.

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

4. Why is Mrs. Nakamura's neighbor tearing down his house before the bombing?
(a) He wants to build a new home.
(b) It lies in a dangerous spot.
(c) It lies in the path of an air-raid-defense fire lane.
(d) He wants to build a small shelter instead.

5. What does Mr. Tanimoto have to keep consciously repeating to himself in order to get all the people across the river?
(a) "It's a great sin to leave them behind."
(b) "They are human beings."
(c) ""What if I was in their place?"
(d) "God will reward me."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When is the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki?

3. Who helps Mrs. Nakamura free the children?

4. Why does Mr. Tanaka expect all the doctors of Hiroshima to come to him?

5. How is Miss Sasaki related to Dr. Sasaki?

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