Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Question 1

What was the first symptom of leukemia that Sadako experienced?

Answer 1

dizziness

Question 2

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?

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

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

Question 4

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

Answer 4

a silk kimono

Question 5

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

Answer 5

her classmates