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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 Mr. Tanimoto take from the five dead men in the river?
(a) He takes their boat.
(b) He takes their glasses.
(c) He takes their wallets.
(d) He takes their food.

2. Who helps Mrs. Nakamura free the children?
(a) Mr. Tarimoto.
(b) Her neighbor.
(c) She frees them herself.
(d) Dr. Sasaki.

3. What is the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto doing when the bomb drops?
(a) He is about to unload a cart of clothes at a rich man's home in the suburbs.
(b) He is about to take a long walk in the suburbs.
(c) He is about to knock on the door of a relative's home who lives in the suburbs.
(d) He is about to deliver a cart of food at an old man's home in the suburbs.

4. What is a Molotov flower basket?
(a) The name the Japanese gave the American bombers.
(b) The delicate Japanese name for self-scattering cluster of bombs.
(c) The delicate Japanese name for B-29s.
(d) The name the Japanese gave the atomic bomb.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Nakamura do with the sewing machine prior to leaving her home?

2. Who does the prefecture order to help clear the fire lanes?

3. Why does Dr. Fujii like to read the Osaka News?

4. What happens to the climate in Asano Park?

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

(see the answer key)

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