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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If operators faced a situation calling for an emergency shutdown of an RBMK, how long would it take to gradually reduce the reactor's power to zero?
(a) 16 to 28 seconds.
(b) 20 to 35 seconds.
(c) 18 to 21 seconds.
(d) 15 to 30 seconds.

2. During a 4 p.m. meeting, how many hours did attendees believe they had to intervene before a new criticality began?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

3. When did Soviet scientists complete the first reactor to generate commercial electricity?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1961.

4. When did a Soviet air force pilot shoot down a Korean Air jumbo jet?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1983.

5. What time did the USSR energy minister Anatoly Mayorets learn about the accident at Chernobyl?
(a) 6 a.m.
(b) 6:30 a.m.
(c) 5:45 a.m.
(d) 6:15 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many months after Hiroshima was bombed, did an additional 37,000 people die?

2. When did construction begin on the first RBMK reactor in the Soviet Union?

3. By the time a scientist from the Kurchatov Insitute warned that the design for the RBMK was too dangerous to be put into civilian operation, how many RBKTs had the government already decreed be built?

4. In 1970, how many Soviet citizens had Communist Party membership?

5. By what time did Interior Ministry troops wearing chemical warfare suits and respirators block access to the Chernobyl plant?

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