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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time did Toptunov set off for the bus stop for his shift at Reactor Number Four on April 25, 1986?
(a) Around 10 p.m.
(b) 10:30 p.m.
(c) 10:45 p.m.
(d) Just before 11 p.m.

2. When was the town of Chernobyl established?
(a) 9th century.
(b) 14th century.
(c) 15th century.
(d) 12th century.

3. From how many designs would the design for the Sarcophagus project be chosen?
(a) 10.
(b) 15.
(c) 20.
(d) 18.

4. In 1983, how many known nuclear accidents had there been and where was the accident?
(a) 5 in the USSR.
(b) 1 in the U.S.
(c) 2 in the USSR.
(d) 1 in Britain.

5. What did Valentina Brukhanov end up doing where she was billeted after being evacuated from Pripyat?
(a) Milking cows.
(b) Mucking barns.
(c) Quilting.
(d) Baking.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the end of May, how many square kilometers of land had become dangerously contaminated?

2. How much did every refugee from Pripyat receive from the Soviet Red Cross Society?

3. When was Guskova in Mayak to give emergency aid to the victims of the USSR's firs nuclear disaster?

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

5. How many years did Georgi Kopchinsky serve as deptuy chief engineer in Chernobyl?

(see the answer key)

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