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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were the first-draft plans of the RBMK drawn up by a heavy machinery plant?
(a) Stalingrad.
(b) Minsk.
(c) Novodvinsk.
(d) Leningrad.

2. When was the town of Chernobyl established?
(a) 15th century.
(b) 14th century.
(c) 12th century.
(d) 9th century.

3. By 2 a.m. after the explosion, how many other fire brigades from all over Kiev raced to the plant?
(a) 17.
(b) 11.
(c) 16.
(d) 21.

4. How long had Leonid Toptunov been on the job when he prepared to pilot the shutdown at Chernobyl?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 1 year.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1986, how many vehicles did Logachev lead to an emergency at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

2. When did construction begin on the first RBMK reactor in the Soviet Union?

3. By the time a scientist from the Kurchatov Insitute warned that the design for the RBMK was too dangerous to be put into civilian operation, how many RBKTs had the government already decreed be built?

4. When did Units Five and Six of the Chernobyl station come online?

5. When was the first major accident involving an RBMK reactor?

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