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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the Reverend Mr. Tanimoto's wife and baby when the bomb falls?
(a) They are spending the night with a friend in another city.
(b) They are at home while he finds a place for their valuables.
(c) They are staying at the church with others.
(d) They are sleeping in the shelter.

2. Mostly, what food is brought back from the shelter for the wounded?
(a) Carrots.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Pumpkin.
(d) Rice.

3. What do the people attribute their sickness of nausea and vomiting to?
(a) The water they'd drank.
(b) The terrible smell of the bomb.
(c) Gas the Americans dropped.
(d) The food they'd eaten.

4. Before the bomb falls, what does everyone in Hiroshima expect to suffer?
(a) Poison gas.
(b) Massive B-29 raids.
(c) A hydrogen bomb.
(d) The atomic bomb.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dr. Fujii have to get up early on the morning the bomb is dropped?

2. What did Mrs. Nakamura's deceased husband do for a living?

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

4. How many children does Mrs. Hasuyo Nakamura have?

5. With whom is Miss Sasaki laid on a large sheet under the rain?

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