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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many tons of topsoil would have had to be removed and buried as nuclear waste to truly decontaminate the Pripyat marshes?
(a) 600 million.
(b) 200 million.
(c) 125 million.
(d) 750 million.

2. How old was Guskova when she was appointed to the new radiation medicine clinic being established at the Institute of Biophysics in Moscow?
(a) 36.
(b) 33.
(c) 38.
(d) 29.

3. In the first three days, what was the most that one pilot returned from Reactor Number Four?
(a) 76 times.
(b) 30 times.
(c) 50 times.
(d) 10 to 15 times.

4. What hours was Colonel Lubomir Mimka working in Chapter 11?
(a) 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
(b) 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
(c) 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
(d) 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

5. How many rem was it estimated that Andrei Tormozin received, but he still made a complete recovery eventually?
(a) Almost 1,000.
(b) 640.
(c) About 580.
(d) 790.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was the May Day parade supposed to have been in KIev?

2. How did Protsenko's brothers die when she was a baby?

3. When did Units Five and Six of the Chernobyl station come online?

4. In 1956, how long did Igor Kurchatov believe it would take to create a network of giant nuclear power stations and produce 2 million kilowatts?

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

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