Q 01/05

In Eleanor Coerr's novel, how many paper cranes does Sadako fold before she grows too weak to go on?

A) 44

B) 144

C) 644

D) 1,300

Answer · why

C) 644

644 is where Sadako's count stops in the novel. Her classmates fold the other 356, so that a full thousand cranes can be buried with her.

Q 02/05

According to Sadako Sasaki's family, what really happened to her goal of folding a thousand cranes?

A) She passed 1,000

B) She stopped at 1,000

C) Her brother finished them

D) Her nurses finished them

Answer · why

A) She passed 1,000

She passed 1,000 by the end of August 1955 and went on folding, an exhibit at Hiroshima's peace museum stated. The story that she fell short comes fro...

Q 03/05

Which illness is known in Hiroshima as the atom bomb disease in Eleanor Coerr's novel about Sadako?

A) Tuberculosis

B) Leukemia

C) Anemia

D) Typhoid

Answer · why

B) Leukemia

Leukemia is a cancer of the blood, and it was still striking young people in Hiroshima nine years after the bomb. Mr. Sasaki prays each morning that h...

Q 04/05

Which best friend visits Sadako in the hospital and tells her the legend of the thousand cranes?

A) Tomoko

B) Yoshiko

C) Kazuko

D) Chizuko

Answer · why

D) Chizuko

Chizuko has been close to Sadako since kindergarten. She folds the very first crane herself, even though she doesn't share her friend's faith in lucky...

Q 05/05

Which US president gave Hiroshima's peace museum paper cranes he had folded, echoing Sadako's story?

A) Bill Clinton

B) Barack Obama

C) Jimmy Carter

D) George W. Bush

Answer · why

B) Barack Obama

Barack Obama was the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima's Peace Memorial, in 2016. The two cranes he made by hand are displayed alongside h...