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

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

3. By what time did Interior Ministry troops wearing chemical warfare suits and respirators block access to the Chernobyl plant?
(a) 9:30 a.m.
(b) 10 a.m.
(c) 9 a.m.
(d) 8:30 a.m.

4. On Saturday, what time did Essaulov notice ambulances coming from the nuclear plant?
(a) Near dawn.
(b) 4 a.m.
(c) 3:30 a.m.
(d) 5 a.m.

5. In the RBMK, to what temperature did the water rise?
(a) 280 degrees centigrade.
(b) 318 degrees centigrade.
(c) 300 degrees centigrade.
(d) 205 degrees centigrade.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How many times smaller are atoms than the width of a human hair?

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

5. Where were the first-draft plans of the RBMK drawn up by a heavy machinery plant?

(see the answer key)

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