Sadako

What did Sadako’s mother always say about Sadako?

• she was a genius and would be a good teacher.
• she was more shy than brave.
• she had learned to run before she could walk
• she loved to read more than anything else

At the Peace Park, Chizuko exclaimed that Sadako couldn’t possible have ---

• remembered anything from when the atom bomb was dropped
• dreamed about Peace Day for twenty days in a row
• heard the Buddhist priest say that spiders brought good luck
• seen Oba chan’s lantern floating out to sea.

One New Year’s Eve, Sadako made a special wish that ---

• her dizzy spells would go away
• she and Chizuko would be placed in the same bamboo class
• her parents would love her not matter what
• her golden crane would come to life

Mr. Sasaki took Sadako to the Red Cross Hospital after ---

• he noticed her swollen arms and legs
• the cut on her knee wouldn’t stop bleeding
• Masahiro couldn’t wake her up
• she collapsed in the schoolyard

The first day at the hospital, Sadako tried not to cry after realizing...

• the medicine she was to take would cause her long hair to fall out
• she would not be there for weeks and would not be part of the racing team
• her grandfather had died in the same room in which she was to stay
• her parents would not be allowed to visit her during her hospital stay

After Masahiro saw the cranes in Sadako’s room, he promised to ---

• paint all of them gold
• take them back home with him
• build her a fine cage for them
• hang all of them from the ceiling

Why did Sadako think Kenji couldn’t have leukemia?

• He had not been born when the bomb was dropped.
• He didn’t have the same bruises that she had
• He had folded a thousand cranes, so the gods should have made him healthy.
• He wasn’t thin like all the other leukemia patients in the hospital.

Sadako called herself a turtle when she

• knocked over the racing trophy she had won
• couldn’t fit into the beautiful silk kimono her grandmother had made for her
• was unable to chew her favorite foods that her mother had brought for her
• acted unladylike when she was home for a visit

As Sadako fought her fear, the golden crane helped her by reminding her ---.

• there was always hope
• life was measured by love, not time
• Kenji had beaten leukemia and was now healthy
• she would soon shed her weak body and free her spirit

What did Sadako see just before she closed her eyes and never woke up?

• a picture of herself winning the relay race
• her hanging flock of birds rustling in a light autumn breeze
• Chizuko walking into the room wearing a kimono with golden cranes on it
• the paper on which Kenji had drawn a thousand cranes