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

2. What does a shortwave rebroadcast announcement by the President of the United States do?
(a) It identifies the new bomb as atomic.
(b) It expresses sympathy for the citizens who were killed and wounded.
(c) It warns of another bomb expected to hit Japan.
(d) It identifies the number of people the bomb killed.

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

4. The symptoms people came down with is a disease later to be known as...
(a) Radiation poison.
(b) Radiation cancer.
(c) Radiation sickness.
(d) Radiation danger.

5. What does Dr. Fujii offer the Jesuit when they find him at eleven o'clock in the morning?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Rice.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the civilians hear on the radio that brings them tears?

2. What happens to Mrs. Nakamura a few weeks after the bombing?

3. In Chapter 3, what gesture makes Father Kleinsorge a little hysterical and want to cry suddenly?

4. After the bombing, what happens to Dr. Fujii's hospital?

5. What does Mrs. Nakamura do with the sewing machine prior to leaving her home?

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