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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long could it take for transplanted bone marrow to become sufficiently well established in patients to begin producing blood components?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 11 weeks.
(c) 3 weeks or 2 months.
(d) 2 weeks or a month.

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

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

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

5. How many missions did Vladimir Usatenko complete inside Units Three and Four?
(a) 26.
(b) 33.
(c) 28.
(d) 31.

6. In Chapter 16, how high did the levels of radiation reach in Area M?
(a) 2,000 roentgen.
(b) 1,000 roentgen.
(c) 5,000 roentgen.
(d) 10,000 roentgen.

7. On Wednesday evening, how many people did Radio Msocow admit had died and been hospitalized?
(a) 2 dead and 197 hospitalized.
(b) 1 dead and 211 hospitalized.
(c) 3 dead and 150 hospitalized.
(d) 5 dead and 318 hospitalized.

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

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

10. In Chapter 13, where did a handful of staff from the Pripyat ispolkom set up an office?
(a) Kiev.
(b) Zaymie.
(c) Polesskoye.
(d) Gomel.

11. On May 29, how many military reservists were mobilized for up to six months?
(a) 275,000.
(b) Hundreds of thousands.
(c) Tens of thousands.
(d) 500,000.

12. When did the Ukrainian people vote to declare independence from the USSR?
(a) February 1992.
(b) December 1991.
(c) January 1992.
(d) November 1991.

13. What was the cost of building the Sarcophagus per day?
(a) $2.1 million.
(b) $1.7 million.
(c) $1.3 million.
(d) $1.5 million.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What hours were members of the government commission working in Chapter 11?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. When did the radioactive releases from the reactor suddenly increase and double from 3 million to 6 million curies?

5. How much of an exposure limit did General Antoshkin impose for his men who were dropping material into the burning reactor?

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