The Ultimate Grave of the Fireflies Trivia Quiz

Nishinomiya Station

Sannomiya Station

Kobe Harbor Station

Osaka Central Station

September 21, 1945

August 15, 1945

June 5, 1945

March 17, 1946

A tin whistle

A candy tin of fruit drops

A tin of tea leaves

A cigarette case

Four

Seven

Two

Nine

Working in a munitions factory

Serving as an officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy

Serving as an army infantry sergeant

Farming outside the city

Nagoya

Yokohama

Hiroshima

Kobe

Buries them in the garden

Gives them to a neighbor for safekeeping

Hides them in the ceiling of the house

Loads them into a handcart

She has a weak heart and needs to take her medicine and move slowly.

She wants to secure a place for the family.

She goes back for the family savings book.

She is helping an elderly neighbor.

At an aid station by the river, unharmed but in shock

In the ruins of their own house

In a temple courtyard, already cremated

A school turned into a makeshift hospital, wrapped head to toe in bandages

A naval officer who served with their father

A family friend who runs a bathhouse

A distant relative, an aunt in Nishinomiya

Their grandmother in the countryside

Their father's naval sword

Setsuko's doll and toys

The family's savings passbook

Their mother's kimonos

That he keeps Setsuko out past curfew

That he refuses to attend school

That he steals food from her pantry

That he does nothing for the war effort and lives off her household

A neighbor begins feeding the children instead.

Seita takes a factory job to pay for their board.

Seita separates their rice ration and they cook their own meals.

The aunt throws them out that same night.

An abandoned bomb shelter beside a pond

An empty fishing shack on the shore

A hollowed-out ruin in the burned district

A cave in the hills above the town

They catch fireflies and release them under the mosquito net.

They use candles taken from the aunt's cupboard.

They burn scraps of their father's letters.

They steal a lantern from a farmhouse.

A festival lantern parade

A naval fleet review, lit up at sea

The stars over their old house

A city on fire

Trying to catch more fireflies in the tin

Digging a grave for the dead fireflies

Feeding the dead fireflies to the fish in the pond

Sweeping the dead insects out of the shelter

She has been sneaking back to the aunt's house.

She has been hiding food from Seita.

She already knows their mother is dead; the aunt told her.

She saw their father's name on a casualty list.

He uses it to measure out their rice.

He keeps beetles in it as a toy.

He fills it with water so the sweet residue makes a drink.

He stores their mother's ashes in it from then on.

Stealing crops from farmers' fields and looting homes during air raids

Begging outside the train station

Working as a runner for a rice merchant

Trading their father's belongings on the black market

He hands him a share of the harvest out of pity.

He beats him and drags him to the police, but the officer lets him go.

He puts Seita to work in the field to pay off the theft.

He turns him over to the army as a deserter's son.

Pebbles from the pond

Buttons off her dress

Marbles

Dried beans

Sand pressed into the shape of fish

A cake decorated with fireflies

A soup of pond water and grass

Rice balls made of mud

A course of injections he cannot supply

Rest and quiet, away from the shelter

Nourishment; food, not medicine

Evacuation to a hospital in Osaka

A capsized fishing boat full of supplies

An unexploded bomb half-buried in the sand

A group of orphans living in a dugout

A corpse laid out under a mat

The naval office, to claim his father's pay

A pawnshop, with his mother's ring

The aunt's house, to ask for a loan

The bank, to empty their mother's savings account

His mother's account was frozen months ago.

Japan has surrendered and the fleet, his father's ship included, is sunk.

The city is to be evacuated within the week.

His father has been promoted and is returning home.

A bowl of white rice

The last of the fruit drops

A cup of milk from a farmer

A slice of watermelon

He carries her to a temple and leaves her with the monks.

He buries her beside the pond and marks the spot with stones.

He sets her adrift on the pond at night.

He cremates her in a straw basket on a hill, with her doll beside her.

Setsuko wakes in the shelter and finds Seita gone.

The janitor returns the tin to the field at dawn.

The siblings' spirits sit on a bench, ringed by fireflies, above a city.

Seita's body is cremated with the other station dead.