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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many trucks from Fire Station Number Two drove up to Unit Four at Chernobyl after the explosion?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

2. How old was Sklyarov in 1986?
(a) 55.
(b) 50.
(c) 51.
(d) 53.

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

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

5. When Volodin and his men passed over Chistogalovka in a helicopter, at what range was the radiometer stuck?
(a) 250 roentgen per hour.
(b) 300 roentgen per hour.
(c) 500 roentgen per hour.
(d) 150 roentgen per hour.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many months after Hiroshima was bombed, did an additional 37,000 people die?

3. During a 4 p.m. meeting, how many hours did attendees believe they had to intervene before a new criticality began?

4. By 7:30 a.m., how long had Akimov and Toptunov been exposed to to the gamma fields inside Unit 4?

5. How much did the biological shield around the RBMK weight?

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