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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many pages of the report Legasov created on the disaster at Chernobyl were excised on the direct orders of Prime Minister Ryzhkov?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

2. At the end of Chapter 12, what size chamber did theoreticians propose building under Unit Four designed to house a massive, purpose-built water-cooled heat exchanger?
(a) 4 meters high and 25 meters square.
(b) 6 meters high and 40 meters square.
(c) 5 meters high and 30 meters square.
(d) 8 meters high and 60 meters square.

3. How many hours did it take the cloud of radiation to reach Scandinavia?
(a) 26.
(b) 30.
(c) 24.
(d) 20.

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

5. How many rems did Tarakanov collect after 2 weeks inside his command post and several trips to the rooftops?
(a) 200.
(b) 195.
(c) 180.
(d) 156.

6. On Tuesday night in the Ukrainian cities of Rovno and Zhitomir, more than 100 kilometers away, how much did the levels of background radiation increase?
(a) 20 times.
(b) 35 times.
(c) 30 times.
(d) 25 times.

7. How long was the May Day parade supposed to have been in KIev?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 1 hour.
(c) 4 hours.
(d) 3 hours.

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) 18,000 tons.
(d) 15,000 tons.

9. 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.

10. How old was Efim Slavsky when he was asked to resign as the leader of the Sredmash?
(a) 71.
(b) 88.
(c) 84.
(d) 68.

11. By November, how many tons of uranium from the reactor core was still missing?
(a) 180.
(b) 155.
(c) 170.
(d) 165.

12. When did Gorbachev finally appear on TV to address the nuclear accident in public?
(a) May 19.
(b) May 15.
(c) May 21.
(d) May 14.

13. At what speeds did the wind currents blow the cloud of radiation northwest across the USSR?
(a) 125 kilometers an hour.
(b) Between 25 and 100 kilometers an hour.
(c) Between 50 and 150 kilometers an hour.
(d) 75 kilometers an hour.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did a Soviet air force pilot shoot down a Korean Air jumbo jet?

2. In the first three days, what was the most that one pilot returned from Reactor Number Four?

3. What hours was Colonel Lubomir Mimka working in Chapter 11?

4. If the melted fuel poisoned the drinking water, how many people would be affected?

5. How far did fallout composed of 21 different radionuclides form a pattern of intense contamination from the plant?

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