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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island?
(a) June 30, 1979.
(b) May 11, 1979.
(c) April 5, 1979.
(d) March 28, 1979.

2. At what time did a purple cone of iridescent flame leap 150 meters into the air around Chernobyl's ventilation stack?
(a) Around 1:24 a.m.
(b) 1:28 a.m.
(c) 1:31 a.m.
(d) Just after 1:25 a.m.

3. How old was Alexander Logachev in 1986?
(a) 26.
(b) 31.
(c) 29.
(d) 34.

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

5. When was the rundown unit supposed to have tested for Reactor Number Four at the Chernobyl plant?
(a) January 1984.
(b) Before December 1983.
(c) After March 1984.
(d) February 1984.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What time did Vladimir Shashenok die at the hospital on Saturday?

3. How long did it take Sklyarov to work his way up from a junior technician at a coal-fired power plant to station director?

4. How many stories tall was the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

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

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