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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 rose bushes did Brukhanov wanted planted in 1985?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 45,000.
(d) 30,000.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. At the end of Chapter 3, how late were the electrical tests on the turbines from when they were scheduled to begin?

4. After an explosion at Chelyabinsk-40 in 1957, how many villages were wiped from the map?

5. How old was Alexander Logachev in 1986?

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