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

2. What does Dr. Sasaki eventually get permission from the Red Cross Hospital to do?
(a) To go to his mother's home in Mukaihara.
(b) To take a two-day break from the Red Cross Hospital.
(c) To sleep for seventeen hours.
(d) To transfer to another hospital.

3. In Chapter 2, the author writes that most people in Hiroshima were too busy or too weary or too badly hurt to do what?
(a) To care that they were the objects of the first great experiment in the use of atomic power.
(b) To know whether or not they would receive any aid.
(c) To care that the U.S. president and their own government officials were making radio announcements.
(d) To care when they heard that another big city had been bombed.

4. Prior to the bombing, what happens to Hiroshima's population?
(a) It is reduced due to several evacuation programs.
(b) It is increased to help clear the fire lanes.
(c) It becomes absent of many professionals who flee the city.
(d) It suffers poverty due to the war.

5. What does the women holding the dead baby keep requesting of Mr. Tanimoto?
(a) To revive her daughter.
(b) To get her a doctor.
(c) To find her son.
(d) To find her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mostly, what food is brought back from the shelter for the wounded?

2. When a roar of approaching planes is heard at Asano Park, the baker commands people to take off garments having what color?

3. How many people in Hiroshima are killed by the atomic bomb?

4. On August 15, who publicly speaks for the first time in Japanese history over the radio?

5. Before the bomb falls, what does everyone in Hiroshima expect to suffer?

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