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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 the six survivors in Hiroshima, who John Hersey writes about, still wonder?
(a) They wonder if their lives will ever be normal 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 whether the atomic bomb will ever be used again.

2. Prior to the bombing, what happens to Hiroshima's population?
(a) It is increased to help clear the fire lanes.
(b) It becomes absent of many professionals who flee the city.
(c) It is reduced due to several evacuation programs.
(d) It suffers poverty due to the war.

3. What does Dr. Terufumi Sasaki do without a permit?
(a) He sells medicine.
(b) He charges his patients.
(c) He treats patients with illnesses he is not an expert in.
(d) He visits a few sick people.

4. What becomes of Dr. Sasaki's financial situation?
(a) He prospers.
(b) He makes enough to buy a decent home.
(c) He becomes the richest doctor in Hiroshima.
(d) He loses a lot of money.

5. What are the huge drops of water falling from the sky?
(a) They are simply rain.
(b) They are water mixed with fission fragments.
(c) They are water coming from the hoses of firemen fighting the blaze.
(d) They are drops of condensed moisture.

Short Answer Questions

1. After 19 straight hours of gruesome work, what does Dr. Sasaki and other survivors of the hospital staff do?

2. 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?

3. In the beginning of Chapter 5, how does Mrs. Nakamura keep her children and herself alive?

4. What incident does NOT show Father Kleinsorge's German side?

5. How do the Nakamura children react during the night at Asano Park?

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