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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. By Sunday, how many men and women from the nuclear plant were admitted to Hospital Number Six?
(a) 198.
(b) 207.
(c) 218.
(d) 184.

4. How many stories tall was the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?
(a) 11.
(b) 20.
(c) 18.
(d) 4.

5. When was Guskova in Mayak to give emergency aid to the victims of the USSR's firs nuclear disaster?
(a) October 1957.
(b) September 1957.
(c) August 1957.
(d) July 1957.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Gorbachev finally appear on TV to address the nuclear accident in public?

3. In 1970, how many Soviet citizens had Communist Party membership?

4. In what compartment was Shashenok found unconscious?

5. When did Soviet scientists complete the first reactor to generate commercial electricity?

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