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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Units Five and Six of the Chernobyl station come online?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1985.

2. 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.

3. Where were the first-draft plans of the RBMK drawn up by a heavy machinery plant?
(a) Novodvinsk.
(b) Leningrad.
(c) Stalingrad.
(d) Minsk.

4. What time did Toptunov set off for the bus stop for his shift at Reactor Number Four on April 25, 1986?
(a) Just before 11 p.m.
(b) 10:30 p.m.
(c) 10:45 p.m.
(d) Around 10 p.m.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many heat-resistant zirconium-alloy pressure tubes were in the channels of the RBMK?

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

3. How many children attended School Number Four in Pripyat in the 1980s?

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

5. How old was Alexander Logachev in 1986?

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