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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Miss Sasaki told before she is lifted to a relief station?
(a) She is told that her whole family has survived.
(b) She is told that her parents survived, but her siblings are dead.
(c) She is told that her father, mother, and baby brother are dead.
(d) She is told that her whole family is dead.

2. What does Mr. Tanimoto do after the people at the park are promised to receive help?
(a) He falls asleep, exhausted.
(b) He resumes ferrying the wounded across the river.
(c) He tries to keep everyone in the park calm and collective.
(d) He helps settle people in for the night.

3. What does Miss Sasaki seem to draw physical strength from?
(a) Her wounded leg returning to normal.
(b) The patients who are worse off than she is.
(c) A family member showing up at the hospital.
(d) Father Kleinsorge's answers about life.

4. Why does Toshio, Nakamura's son, have to get a job?
(a) He needs to help his mother with the bills.
(b) He wants to save up for a new sewing maching for his mother.
(c) His mother is no longer able to work.
(d) He needs to earn money to attend high school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dr. Fujii work?

2. What ends up happening to Father Kleinsorge's wounds a few weeks after the bombing?

3. What happens to the Kataoka children, sister and brother, whom Father Kleinsorge finds?

4. What is the condition of one of the wounded people lying beside Miss Sasaki?

5. What does a young man who is staying at the same hospital as that of Miss Sasaki give her?

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