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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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) Just before 11 p.m.
(b) 10:30 p.m.
(c) 10:45 p.m.
(d) Around 10 p.m.

2. How long did it take Sklyarov to work his way up from a junior technician at a coal-fired power plant to station director?
(a) 14 years.
(b) 11 years.
(c) 16 years.
(d) 18 years.

3. How much larger was the RBMK than Western reactors by volume?
(a) 15 times.
(b) 25 times.
(c) 20 times.
(d) 5 times.

4. 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.

5. 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?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

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

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

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

9. When did the first planes from Moscow arrive in Kiev after the Chernobyl accident?
(a) 11 a.m.
(b) 10:30 a.m.
(c) 2 p.m.
(d) 1 p.m.

10. How many members were on Prushinksky's nuclear emergency response team?
(a) 18.
(b) 15.
(c) 10.
(d) 20.

11. Before the accident at Chernobyl, how often had Prushinksky's nuclear emergency response team been deployed?
(a) Once.
(b) Never.
(c) Four times.
(d) Twice.

12. When was the first major accident involving an RBMK reactor?
(a) September 20, 1975.
(b) October 17, 1975.
(c) November 30, 1975.
(d) December 4, 1975.

13. By 7:30 a.m., how long had Akimov and Toptunov been exposed to to the gamma fields inside Unit 4?
(a) About 3 hours.
(b) More than 6 hours.
(c) 5 hours.
(d) 7 hours.

14. How many roentgen per hour did the radiation dosimeter indicate as Logachev and his men passed the concrete signpost marking the perimeter of the power station grounds?
(a) 51.
(b) 32.
(c) 15.
(d) 29.

15. How long after the explosion was Viktor Brukhanov called about the incident?
(a) 2 1/2 minutes.
(b) 1 1/2 minutes.
(c) 3 minutes.
(d) 2 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. By nightfall on Saturday, how many doses of potassium iodide arrived at Pripyat?

2. On Saturday, how many tons of boric acid powder did Sklyarov order be sent from Rovno nuclear power station?

3. By 2 a.m. after the explosion, how many other fire brigades from all over Kiev raced to the plant?

4. Where were the dimension of the core of the RBMK?

5. How long after the explosion at Chernobyl did the secure high-frequency lines ring at the Union-level ministries in Moscow?

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