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

2. What is the 20-year-old woman doing when Mr. Tanimoto sees her?
(a) She is trying to feed her dead infant son as if he's alive.
(b) She is talking to her dead infant daughter as if she's alive.
(c) She is carrying her dead infant daughter in her arms.
(d) She is bundling her dead infant son to keep him warm.

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

4. Why does Mr. Tanaka send his daughter for Mr. Tanimoto, whom he hadn't been on good terms with?
(a) He wants to apologize for the way he had treated Mr. Tanimoto.
(b) He knows Mr. Tanimoto is good hearted and would assist him any way he could.
(c) He knows he is dying and is willing to be comforted by any religion.
(d) He knows he is dying and wants to ask Mr. Tanimoto to look after his daughter.

5. Mr. Tanimoto carries water from the river to the people, an act which...
(a) Turns out to be a mistake.
(b) He regrets having done.
(c) He is proud to have been able to do.
(d) Saves a number of people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps Mrs. Nakamura free the children?

2. Who is the person Miss Sasaki thinks about while in the hospital?

3. Why does Father Kelinsorge go to the police station the day after the bombing?

4. For more than a month, Dr. Sasaki works...

5. In trying to rebuild the city, what is the Planning Conference in Hiroshima at a loss to?

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