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

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

3. How many times smaller are atoms than the width of a human hair?
(a) 500,000.
(b) A billion.
(c) A million.
(d) 250,000.

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

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) 4 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 8 years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1953, how far did a hydrogen bomb tested by the USSR turn the surface of the earth to glass around ground zero?

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

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

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

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