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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the first Soviet atomic bomb detonated on the steppes of Kazakhstan?
(a) June 5, 1949.
(b) August 29, 1949.
(c) July 18, 1949.
(d) September 3, 1949.

3. When did Units Five and Six of the Chernobyl station come online?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1982.

4. At the end of Chapter 3, how late were the electrical tests on the turbines from when they were scheduled to begin?
(a) 12 hours.
(b) 3 hours.
(c) 8 hours.
(d) 9 hours.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Alexander Logachev in 1986?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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