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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the prefecture order to help clear the fire lanes?
(a) The boys from secondary schools.
(b) The girls from secondary schools.
(c) The female students from colleges and universities.
(d) The male students from colleges and universities.

2. Where does Dr. Sasaki work?
(a) Hiroshima Hospital.
(b) The Red Cross Hospital.
(c) The Hiroshima University hospital.
(d) A private clinic.

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

4. What is Mr. Hatsuyo Nakamura doing when the bomb drops?
(a) She is cooking a meal for her children in the kitchen.
(b) She is watching a neighbor from her kitchen window.
(c) She is fixing up her childrens' bedroom.
(d) She is watching her five year old from the bedroom window.

5. Early in the afternoon, what sweeps into Asano Park?
(a) Fire.
(b) Rocks.
(c) Dust.
(d) Bombing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man who tries to rescue Miss Sasaki tell her?

2. What do the six survivors in Hiroshima, who John Hersey writes about, still wonder?

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

4. What is Miss Toshinki Sasaki's profession?

5. What did those who were burnt beg for?

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