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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Aftermath.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Dr. Fujii's five grown children grow up to do?
(a) Three of them follow in their father's footsteps and two of them become teachers.
(b) They live off of their father.
(c) They follow in their father's footsteps.
(d) They each follow a career path different than one another.

2. What do the employers develop against the survivors of the atomic bomb?
(a) Annoyance.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Prejudice.
(d) Pity.

3. In Chapter 3, when Mr. Tanimoto reaches down to the river and takes a woman by the hand, what sickens him so much that he has to sit down?
(a) Her bones break through her skin.
(b) Her skin slips off in huge, glovelike pieces.
(c) Her hands are as hard as clay.
(d) He hears her joints disconnecting from each other.

4. A year after the bomb is dropped, what condition is Mr. Tanimoto's church in?
(a) It has the same number of attendees.
(b) It still has his exceptional vitality.
(c) It is rebuilt.
(d) It is ruined.

5. To the Japanese, what is a greater moral responsibility than adequate care of the living?
(a) Disposal of the dead by decent cremation and enshrinment.
(b) Cremation should be attended to only after the survivors have been taken care of.
(c) Cremation is not important under dire circumstances.
(d) Cremation is the responsibility of relatives only.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mrs. Nakamura's deceased husband do for a living?

2. What do the people attribute their sickness of nausea and vomiting to?

3. What ends up happening to Mrs. Nakamura's children after they grow up?

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

5. What does Mrs. Nakamura have to do in order to be able to work?

(see the answer key)

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