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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of the Prologue, what was the reading of roentgen an hour on the radiometer?
(a) 2,080.
(b) 112.
(c) 1,090.
(d) 215,

2. How old was one of Dyatlov's sons when he died from leukemia?
(a) 10.
(b) 7.
(c) 9.
(d) 8.

3. How many times smaller are atoms than the width of a human hair?
(a) A million.
(b) 250,000.
(c) A billion.
(d) 500,000.

4. When did construction begin on the first RBMK reactor in the Soviet Union?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1972.

5. 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?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. After an explosion at Chelyabinsk-40 in 1957, how many villages were wiped from the map?

2. When did Units Five and Six of the Chernobyl station come online?

3. When was the reactor design called the RBMK-1000 complete?

4. In what compartment was Shashenok found unconscious?

5. When was a name settled on for the Chernobyl plant?

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