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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was one of Dyatlov's sons when he died from leukemia?
(a) 9.
(b) 7.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

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

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?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

4. In 1983, how many known nuclear accidents had there been and where was the accident?
(a) 1 in the U.S.
(b) 1 in Britain.
(c) 2 in the USSR.
(d) 5 in the USSR.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what river basin was the Chernobyl plant constructed?

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

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

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

5. How many roentgen per hour did the radiation dosimeter indicate as Logachev and his men passed the concrete signpost marking the perimeter of the power station grounds?

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