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

2. How old was Alexander Logachev in 1986?
(a) 31.
(b) 29.
(c) 26.
(d) 34.

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

4. In 1970, how many Soviet citizens had Communist Party membership?
(a) About 2 in 20.
(b) 4 in 50.
(c) Less than 1 in 15.
(d) 3 in 25.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Brukhanov study at the Polytechnic Institute in Tashkent?

2. When was the first Soviet atomic bomb detonated on the steppes of Kazakhstan?

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

4. How many stories tall was the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

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

(see the answer key)

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