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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Details are Being Investigated.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the news that was heard on the radio August 15 convey?
(a) The war is over.
(b) The war has just begun.
(c) Japan still has a chance to win the war.
(d) The war will continue.

3. On what day is the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) August 26, 1945.
(b) August 1, 1945.
(c) August 16, 1945.
(d) August 6, 1945.

4. Why isn't Mr. Tanimoto able to bring a doctor to Asano Park?
(a) The doctors he meets are badly wounded themselves.
(b) Doctors elsewhere have thousands of their own wounded to care for.
(c) The doctors tell him there is no hope in saving those who are wounded by the bomb.
(d) He can't find any.

5. After 19 straight hours of gruesome work, what does Dr. Sasaki and other survivors of the hospital staff do?
(a) They break up in search of other doctors.
(b) They lay down in hiding behind the hospital to catch some sleep.
(c) They go behind the hospital to eat some biscuits and rice balls.
(d) They leave the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, after the bombing, why does Mr. Tanimoto run towards the city when everyone else is running out?

2. Why does Father Kelinsorge go to the police station the day after the bombing?

3. After the bombing, at the Red Cross Hospital, Dr. Sasaki is...

4. On August 15, who publicly speaks for the first time in Japanese history over the radio?

5. Before the bomb falls, what does everyone in Hiroshima expect to suffer?

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