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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far did fallout composed of 21 different radionuclides form a pattern of intense contamination from the plant?
(a) 350 kilometers.
(b) 300 kilometers.
(c) 250 kilometers.
(d) 200 kilometers.

2. For how how many days did Tarakanov's men remove debris from the roofs of the reactors from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.?
(a) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 11.
(d) 18.

3. When were Pravik and Kibenok's bodies buried in Mitino cemetery in the northwest suburbs of Moscow?
(a) May 11.
(b) May 13.
(c) May 19.
(d) May 9.

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

5. When did a senior member of the original Soviet delegation to Vienna admit publicly that the designers of the RBMK had been chiefly to blame for the catastrophe?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 3, how late were the electrical tests on the turbines from when they were scheduled to begin?

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

3. On Tuesday, April 29, how many victims of the accident were hospitalized in Moscow?

4. In Chapter 13, where did a handful of staff from the Pripyat ispolkom set up an office?

5. At what time did a purple cone of iridescent flame leap 150 meters into the air around Chernobyl's ventilation stack?

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