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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Nakamura do as soon as everything turns white?
(a) She runs outside.
(b) She hides beneath the bed.
(c) She kneels down and covers her head.
(d) She turns towards her children.

2. What did Mrs. Nakamura's deceased husband do for a living?
(a) He was a government official.
(b) He was a surgeon.
(c) He was a clerk.
(d) He was a tailor.

3. Why does Miss Toshiko Sasaki wake up at three A.M. the morning the bomb is dropped?
(a) There is extra housework to do.
(b) She has a long commute to work.
(c) She hears the warning sirens.
(d) She had a nightmare.

4. What is Mrs. Halsuyo Nakamura's profession?
(a) She is a dental assistant.
(b) She is a tailor.
(c) She is a nurse.
(d) She is a teacher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What it something Dr. Fujii feel despite the misery all around him?

2. What is a Molotov flower basket?

3. What falls on Miss Sasaki's legs after the bomb drops?

4. At what time does the atomic bomb flash above Hiroshima?

5. Who does Dr. Terufimi Sasaki live with?

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