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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) 900.
(c) More than 2,000.
(d) About 1,100.

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

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

4. In 1953, how far did a hydrogen bomb tested by the USSR turn the surface of the earth to glass around ground zero?
(a) 6 kilometers.
(b) 5 kilometers.
(c) 4 kilometers.
(d) 7 kilometers.

5. In 1986, how many vehicles did Logachev lead to an emergency at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?
(a) More than 30.
(b) 28.
(c) 36.
(d) About 15.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many rivers and streams formed the Dnieper River basin?

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. How many times smaller are atoms than the width of a human hair?

5. How old was Alexander Logachev in 1986?

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