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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 do people hear prior to the bomb dropping?
(a) A radio announcement assuring everyone that all is safe.
(b) The warning siren.
(c) The all-clear sound.
(d) A plane flying over.

2. How many children does Mrs. Hasuyo Nakamura have?
(a) She has two sons and two daughters.
(b) She has one son and two daughters.
(c) She has two daughters and one son.
(d) She has a son and a daughter.

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 if their lives will ever be normal again.
(d) They wonder why the Americnas used such a bomb on them.

4. In general, the survivors of Hiroshima...
(a) They tried to help everyone around them.
(b) They assisted only their relatives or immediate neighbors.
(c) They only assisted the women, children and elders.
(d) They were too shocked to help anyone but themselves.

5. In Chapter 3, what happens in Hiroshima that causes more devastation?
(a) A great fire.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) A flood.
(d) Another air raid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dr. Fujii have to get up early on the morning the bomb is dropped?

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

3. In Chapter 2, the author writes that most people in Hiroshima were too busy or too weary or too badly hurt to do what?

4. A year after the bomb is dropped, Miss Sasaki is...

5. Where does Dr. Fujii work?

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