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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 months after Hiroshima was bombed, did an additional 37,000 people die?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 2 months.

2. How much did the biological shield around the RBMK weight?
(a) 2,000 tons.
(b) 1,000 tons.
(c) 1,500 tons.
(d) 3,100 tons.

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

4. In what river basin was the Chernobyl plant constructed?
(a) Lena.
(b) Ob-Irtysh.
(c) Pripyat.
(d) Yenisei.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What building in Washington, D.C. is so radioactive that the bulding would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants?

2. How many heat-resistant zirconium-alloy pressure tubes were in the channels of the RBMK?

3. In 1983, how many known nuclear accidents had there been and where was the accident?

4. How many beds did the Pripyat hospital have?

5. The day after the RBMK reactor in Leningrade meltdown, did the Soviet Union's Council of Ministers give approval to how many RBMK-1000 units in Chernobyl?

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