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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 new dams and filters were built in an attempt to trap contaminated water before it could reach the Pripyat river?
(a) 127.
(b) 119.
(c) 131.
(d) 148.

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

3. How old was Sklyarov in 1986?
(a) 50.
(b) 51.
(c) 53.
(d) 55.

4. 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.

5. How long after the explosion was Viktor Brukhanov called about the incident?
(a) 3 minutes.
(b) 2 minutes.
(c) 1 1/2 minutes.
(d) 2 1/2 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much energy were the high-power channel-type reactors theoretically capable of generating?

2. At the end of Chapter 3, how late were the electrical tests on the turbines from when they were scheduled to begin?

3. By morning on Saturday, how many patients were admitted?

4. How long could it take for transplanted bone marrow to become sufficiently well established in patients to begin producing blood components?

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

(see the answer key)

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