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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years after it was planned for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to finally go critical did it go online?
(a) 20 months.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 2 years.

2. How many rivers and streams formed the Dnieper River basin?
(a) 9,000.
(b) 14,000.
(c) 32,000.
(d) 28,000.

3. When was the first Soviet atomic bomb detonated on the steppes of Kazakhstan?
(a) August 29, 1949.
(b) June 5, 1949.
(c) July 18, 1949.
(d) September 3, 1949.

4. How many months after Hiroshima was bombed, did an additional 37,000 people die?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 8 months.

5. By 7:30 a.m., how long had Akimov and Toptunov been exposed to to the gamma fields inside Unit 4?
(a) 7 hours.
(b) About 3 hours.
(c) 5 hours.
(d) More than 6 hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. What building in Washington, D.C. is so radioactive that the bulding would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants?

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

3. In the RBMK, to what temperature did the water rise?

4. How much did the biological shield around the RBMK weight?

5. When was the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island?

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