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1
Q

What was the first symptom of leukemia that Sadako experienced?

A

dizziness

2
Q

When Sadako’s friend, Chizuko, first visited Sadako in the hospital, what did Chizuko give Sadako that Sadako called a good luck charm and what story did Chizuko tell Sadako to go with the gift?

A

Chizuko gave Sadako a paper crane and told her that if a sick person folds a thousand paper cranes, the gods will make her well again.

3
Q

Why does Sadako say that Kenji could not have gotten leukemia from the atom bomb and how did Kenji get leukemia?

A

Kenji wasn’t born when the atomic bomb was dropped, but his mother was poisoned from the bomb and he got leukemia from her.

4
Q

Before Sadako died, her mother gave her something that she had always wanted for Sadako? What was it?

A

a silk kimono

5
Q

Sadako died before she finished folding all the paper cranes, yet she was buried with a thousand paper cranes. Who folded the rest?

A

her classmates