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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue-Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was a name settled on for the Chernobyl plant?
(a) April 9, 1970.
(b) March 11, 1970.
(c) January 24, 1970.
(d) February 20, 1970.

2. In what river basin was the Chernobyl plant constructed?
(a) Yenisei.
(b) Lena.
(c) Pripyat.
(d) Ob-Irtysh.

3. At the end of the Prologue, what was the reading of roentgen an hour on the radiometer?
(a) 112.
(b) 1,090.
(c) 215,
(d) 2,080.

4. How many months after Hiroshima was bombed, did an additional 37,000 people die?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 8 months.

5. In 1956, how long did Igor Kurchatov believe it would take to create a network of giant nuclear power stations and produce 2 million kilowatts?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 8 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What time did Toptunov set off for the bus stop for his shift at Reactor Number Four on April 25, 1986?

3. Where was the location of the fallout from a clandestine radioactive accident that Logachev traveled to?

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

5. What building in Washington, D.C. is so radioactive that the bulding would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants?

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