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

2. By Sunday, how many helicopters did General Antoshkin command?
(a) 100.
(b) 80.
(c) 90.
(d) 50.

3. How many rose bushes did Brukhanov wanted planted in 1985?
(a) 45,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 50,000.

4. How many patients did a doctor say needed to evacuated to Moscow at 4 p.m. on Saturday?
(a) 18.
(b) 30.
(c) 46.
(d) 25.

5. 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) 29.
(c) 32.
(d) 15.

6. When was a name settled on for the Chernobyl plant?
(a) March 11, 1970.
(b) February 20, 1970.
(c) April 9, 1970.
(d) January 24, 1970.

7. Where was the location of the fallout from a clandestine radioactive accident that Logachev traveled to?
(a) Semipalatinsk.
(b) Khabarovsk-47.
(c) East Urals Trace.
(d) Novaya Zemlya.

8. When did Units Five and Six of the Chernobyl station come online?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1985.

9. 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?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 8 years.

10. Where were the dimension of the core of the RBMK?
(a) 12 meters across and 7 meters high.
(b) 10 meters across and 9 meters high.
(c) 15 meters across and 9 meters high.
(d) 20 meters across and 17 meters high.

11. 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) 18 years.
(b) 14 years.
(c) 11 years.
(d) 16 years.

12. How did Protsenko's brothers die when she was a baby?
(a) Diphtheria.
(b) Measles.
(c) Flu.
(d) Mumps.

13. How many children attended School Number Four in Pripyat in the 1980s?
(a) 900.
(b) More than 2,000.
(c) 1,750.
(d) About 1,100.

14. What time did the USSR energy minister Anatoly Mayorets learn about the accident at Chernobyl?
(a) 6 a.m.
(b) 6:30 a.m.
(c) 6:15 a.m.
(d) 5:45 a.m.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did the biological shield around the RBMK weight?

2. When was the first Soviet atomic bomb detonated on the steppes of Kazakhstan?

3. By what time did Interior Ministry troops wearing chemical warfare suits and respirators block access to the Chernobyl plant?

4. By morning on Saturday, how many patients were admitted?

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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