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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the end of May, how many square kilometers of land had become dangerously contaminated?
(a) 5,500.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 4,500.
(d) 5,000.

2. At the end of Chapter 10, how far had the contamination from the plant spread?
(a) About 25 kilometers.
(b) 17 kilometers.
(c) 35 kilometers.
(d) As far as 30 kilometers.

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

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

5. By the end of the first week, how many bone marrow transplants did Dr. Alexander Baranov, head of Hospital Number Six's hematology department oversee?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

6. In Chapter 11 because of the secret nature of his mission, how long was it before Velikhov was able to call his wife?
(a) 6 weeks.
(b) 5 weeks.
(c) 7 weeks.
(d) 8 weeks.

7. By the end of the week, how many did the New York Post say had died in Ukraine from unconfirmed reports?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 11,000.
(d) 18,000.

8. By the middle of the summer, how much concrete was being churned out every 24 hours by the Sredmash plants?
(a) 11,000 tons.
(b) 12,000 tons.
(c) 15,000 tons.
(d) 18,000 tons.

9. By Sunday evening, how many tons of boron and sand had General Antoshkin's pilots been able to dump into Unit Four?
(a) 5 tons of boron and 50 tons of sand.
(b) 20 tons of boron and 180 tons of sand.
(c) 10 tons of boron and 80 tons of sand.
(d) 15 tons of boron and 100 tons of sand.

10. In Chapter 16, when did the Politburo publicly promise that the first two of the three remaining Chernobyl reactors would be put back into service?
(a) Before winter.
(b) Late fall.
(c) November.
(d) December.

11. How fast could the specially manufactured trailers move when delivering the steel beam called the Mammoth?
(a) 2 kilometers per hour.
(b) 6 kilometers per hour.
(c) 4 kilometers per hour.
(d) 7 kilometers per hour.

12. In September, what became the official death toll of the nuclear accident?
(a) 46.
(b) 58.
(c) 67.
(d) 31.

13. How far did the government commission have to withdraw from Pripyat on April 29 because of the radiation levels there?
(a) 5 kilometers.
(b) 23 kilometers.
(c) 19 kilometers.
(d) 31 kilometers.

14. When were refugees from Pripyat first allowed to return to their homes and salvage what they could?
(a) July 7.
(b) July 29.
(c) July 25.
(d) July 11.

15. How many days did Vladimir Usatenko spend inside the zone at Chernobyl?
(a) 44.
(b) 39.
(c) 26.
(d) 58.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men worked on the roof removing debris on Tarakanov's team of bio-robots?

2. When was a statement finally issued by TASS regarding the accident at Chernobyl?

3. On April 30, how many hours a day did army reservists pile sacks into parachute canopies and secure them to cargo hard points?

4. How long could it take for transplanted bone marrow to become sufficiently well established in patients to begin producing blood components?

5. When did the Ukrainian people vote to declare independence from the USSR?

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