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

2. After the explosion, how many safey valves were open in Unit Four control room?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

3. How many roentgen per hour did the radiation dosimeter indicate as Logachev and his men passed the concrete signpost marking the perimeter of the power station grounds?
(a) 51.
(b) 32.
(c) 29.
(d) 15.

4. By 2 a.m. after the explosion, how many other fire brigades from all over Kiev raced to the plant?
(a) 11.
(b) 21.
(c) 17.
(d) 16.

5. How long had Leonid Toptunov been on the job when he prepared to pilot the shutdown at Chernobyl?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 2 years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1983, how many known nuclear accidents had there been and where was the accident?

3. When did the Soviet Council of MInisters issue a decree approving the construction of the RBMKs?

4. How old was one of Dyatlov's sons when he died from leukemia?

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

(see the answer key)

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