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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 children attended School Number Four in Pripyat in the 1980s?
(a) 1,750.
(b) About 1,100.
(c) 900.
(d) More than 2,000.

2. Where were the dimension of the core of the RBMK?
(a) 20 meters across and 17 meters high.
(b) 12 meters across and 7 meters high.
(c) 15 meters across and 9 meters high.
(d) 10 meters across and 9 meters high.

3. How many heat-resistant zirconium-alloy pressure tubes were in the channels of the RBMK?
(a) 900.
(b) 1,600.
(c) 750.
(d) 1,800.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1986, how many vehicles did Logachev lead to an emergency at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

2. How long had Leonid Toptunov been on the job when he prepared to pilot the shutdown at Chernobyl?

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

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

5. By 7:30 a.m., how long had Akimov and Toptunov been exposed to to the gamma fields inside Unit 4?

(see the answer key)

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