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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. On Tuesday, April 29, how many victims of the accident were hospitalized in Moscow?
(a) 75.
(b) Almost 200.
(c) About 300.
(d) 150.

4. 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) 11,000 tons.
(c) 15,000 tons.
(d) 18,000 tons.

5. Within the first 12 days after the accident, how many bone marrow operations did Alexander Baranov and Rober Gale conduct?
(a) 18.
(b) 22.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

6. How many tons could the Mi-26 carry in a single load?
(a) Up to 20.
(b) 15.
(c) 30.
(d) About 25.

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

8. In the first three days, what was the most that one pilot returned from Reactor Number Four?
(a) 10 to 15 times.
(b) 76 times.
(c) 30 times.
(d) 50 times.

9. What hours were members of the government commission working in Chapter 11?
(a) 8 a.m to 1 a.m.
(b) 8 a.m. to midnight.
(c) 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
(d) 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

10. When did Brukhanov submit a request to take time off to visit his son and his wife?
(a) May 22.
(b) May 19.
(c) May 17.
(d) May 24.

11. How long did General Pikalov believe it would take for the decontamination work?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 7 months.
(c) 15 months.
(d) 7 years.

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

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

14. How much of an exposure limit did General Antoshkin impose for his men who were dropping material into the burning reactor?
(a) 25 rem.
(b) 20 rem.
(c) 22 rem.
(d) 30 rem.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Guskova in Mayak to give emergency aid to the victims of the USSR's firs nuclear disaster?

2. At what speeds did the wind currents blow the cloud of radiation northwest across the USSR?

3. At the end of Chapter 10, how far had the contamination from the plant spread?

4. How old was Efim Slavsky when he was asked to resign as the leader of the Sredmash?

5. Where were Natalia Yuvchenko and her two-year-old son billeted after the evacuation from Pripyat?

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