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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 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) He may receive badly poisoned blood from an atomic bomb survivor.
(c) Atomic bomb patients may not stop bleeding once needles are stuck in them.
(d) Atomic bomb patients become sick during blood transfusions.

2. What does the doctor tell Father Kleinsorge at the hospital?
(a) "You'll be out of here in two weeks."
(b) "There isn't a cure for your symptoms."
(c) "You have to go to another hospital."
(d) "You'll have to stay here at least six months."

3. What do the six survivors in Hiroshima, who John Hersey writes about, still wonder?
(a) They wonder whether the atomic bomb will ever be used again.
(b) They wonder why they lived while so many others died.
(c) They wonder why the Americnas used such a bomb on them.
(d) They wonder if their lives will ever be normal again.

4. After the bombing, at the Red Cross Hospital, Dr. Sasaki is...
(a) The sole uninjured doctor.
(b) The only badly injured doctor.
(c) He is too overwhelmed and shocked to attend to the patients coming in.
(d) He is not able to function because he lost his glasses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the afternoon of the third day after the bombing, what does Dr. Sasaki become obsessed with?

2. Where is Father Kleinsorge a year after the bomb?

3. What happens to Dr. Sasaki about seven months after the bombing?

4. Why doesn't Mrs. Nakamura see a doctor for her ailments?

5. What does the women holding the dead baby keep requesting of Mr. Tanimoto?

(see the answer key)

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