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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Dr. Fujii work?
(a) He operates a family-owned clinic.
(b) He works at a local clinic.
(c) He works at Hiroshima Hospital.
(d) He operates a private hospital.

2. With whom is Miss Sasaki laid on a large sheet under the rain?
(a) She is laid with two other wounded people, a man and a woman.
(b) She is laid with four other wounded, two men and two women.
(c) She is laid with one other person.
(d) She is laid with three children.

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

4. What does Dr. Terufumi Sasaki do without a permit?
(a) He charges his patients.
(b) He visits a few sick people.
(c) He sells medicine.
(d) He treats patients with illnesses he is not an expert in.

5. How is Miss Sasaki related to Dr. Sasaki?
(a) She is his sister-in-law.
(b) She is his niece.
(c) There is no relation.
(d) She is his cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Miss Toshiko Sasaki wake up at three A.M. the morning the bomb is dropped?

2. Where does Dr. Sasaki work?

3. Almost no one in Hiroshima recalls...

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

5. Why are the wounded calling out to Mr. Tanimoto?

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