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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On Saturday, how many tons of boric acid powder did Sklyarov order be sent from Rovno nuclear power station?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

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) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

3. When was the Mammoth beam finally lowered into place?
(a) October 27.
(b) October 30.
(c) November 1.
(d) November 4.

4. By the end of May, how many square kilometers of land had become dangerously contaminated?
(a) 5,500.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 4,500.
(d) 5,000.

5. What building in Washington, D.C. is so radioactive that the bulding would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants?
(a) National Archives.
(b) Library of Congress.
(c) U.S. Capitol.
(d) Supreme Court.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the reactor of Unit One come back online?

2. By nightfall on Saturday, how many doses of potassium iodide arrived at Pripyat?

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

4. Where were the first-draft plans of the RBMK drawn up by a heavy machinery plant?

5. At the end of the Prologue, what was the reading of roentgen an hour on the radiometer?

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