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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To limit overall radiation exposure, what was the length of the duty tours for the teams of Sredmash US-605 in Chernobyl?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 3 months.

2. When was a statement finally issued by TASS regarding the accident at Chernobyl?
(a) April 27 at 4 p.m.
(b) April 30 at 6 p.m.
(c) April 29 at 5 p.m.
(d) April 28 at 8 p.m.

3. How many new dams and filters were built in an attempt to trap contaminated water before it could reach the Pripyat river?
(a) 127.
(b) 131.
(c) 119.
(d) 148.

4. How many stories tall was Hospital Number Six?
(a) 7.
(b) 11.
(c) 14.
(d) 9.

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

6. How much did every refugee from Pripyat receive from the Soviet Red Cross Society?
(a) 150 rubles.
(b) 100 rubles.
(c) 225 rubles.
(d) 50 rubles.

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

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

9. When citizens were removed from Pripyat, how many small towns or villages were used to take them in?
(a) 30.
(b) More than 50.
(c) 45.
(d) About 55.

10. When Natalia Yuvchenko asked about her husband's condition, how long did doctors say it would be before they would know if he would survive?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) 8 weeks.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 6 weeks.

11. Where were Natalia Yuvchenko and her two-year-old son billeted after the evacuation from Pripyat?
(a) Yatsyny.
(b) Chornukhy.
(c) Lugoviki.
(d) Piznyky.

12. How old was Guskova when she was appointed to the new radiation medicine clinic being established at the Institute of Biophysics in Moscow?
(a) 29.
(b) 33.
(c) 38.
(d) 36.

13. When did a Soviet air force pilot shoot down a Korean Air jumbo jet?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1983.

14. How old was General Tarakanov in 1986?
(a) 49.
(b) 61.
(c) 58.
(d) 52.

15. By Tuesday, April 29, what did the temperature from the reactor drop to?
(a) 500 degrees centigrade.
(b) 750 degrees centigrade.
(c) 800 degrees centigrade.
(d) 300 degrees centigrade.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within the first 12 days after the accident, how many bone marrow operations did Alexander Baranov and Rober Gale conduct?

2. When did Gorbachev finally appear on TV to address the nuclear accident in public?

3. 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.?

4. By November, how many tons of uranium from the reactor core was still missing?

5. How many tons of topsoil would have had to be removed and buried as nuclear waste to truly decontaminate the Pripyat marshes?

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