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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 Miss Sasaki's neighbor at the factory mistaken about?
(a) She thinks no one will come save them.
(b) She thinks her back is broken.
(c) She thinks she will bleed to death.
(d) She thinks it's safer to stay put.

2. Months after she is discharged from the hospital, what does Miss Sasaki prepare herself for?
(a) Searching for her siblings.
(b) Getting married.
(c) Finding a job.
(d) Conversion to Catholicism.

3. What concern is there about giving Father Kliensorge a blood transfusion?
(a) There isn't the proper equipment for blood transfusions for atomic bomb patients.
(b) Atomic bomb patients become sick during blood transfusions.
(c) He may receive badly poisoned blood from an atomic bomb survivor.
(d) Atomic bomb patients may not stop bleeding once needles are stuck in them.

4. As symptoms of radiation disease reveal themselves, it becomes clear that many of them resemble the effects of...
(a) An overdose of gamma rays.
(b) An overdose of x-rays.
(c) An overdose of electromagnetic spectrum.
(d) An overdose of electromagnetic radiation.

5. What is the 20-year-old woman doing when Mr. Tanimoto sees her?
(a) She is bundling her dead infant son to keep him warm.
(b) She is trying to feed her dead infant son as if he's alive.
(c) She is talking to her dead infant daughter as if she's alive.
(d) She is carrying her dead infant daughter in her arms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people hear prior to the bomb dropping?

2. Who is the person Miss Sasaki thinks about while in the hospital?

3. To the Japanese, what is a greater moral responsibility than adequate care of the living?

4. Once Mrs. Nakamura takes her children out into the street, what does she worry about?

5. Why is Mrs. Nakamura's neighbor tearing down his house before the bombing?

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