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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Panic Grass and Feverfew.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a Molotov flower basket?
(a) The name the Japanese gave the atomic bomb.
(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 American bombers.

2. Why does Father Kelinsorge go to the police station the day after the bombing?
(a) To see if they needed any help.
(b) To find the parents of two little children.
(c) To fill out a claim form for property damage.
(d) To ask if they could assist in bringing doctors to Asano Park.

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

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

5. What does Mr. Tanimoto have to keep consciously repeating to himself in order to get all the people across the river?
(a) "God will reward me."
(b) ""What if I was in their place?"
(c) "It's a great sin to leave them behind."
(d) "They are human beings."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does NOT happen to the people at Asano Park?

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

3. What is Mr. Hatsuyo Nakamura doing when the bomb drops?

4. What happens when Mr. Tanimoto finds his wife after the bombing?

5. Who helps Mrs. Nakamura free the children?

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