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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. When was the Mammoth beam finally lowered into place?
(a) November 4.
(b) October 27.
(c) October 30.
(d) November 1.

9. By Sunday, how many men and women from the nuclear plant were admitted to Hospital Number Six?
(a) 198.
(b) 184.
(c) 207.
(d) 218.

10. If a steam explosion happened and destroyed the rest of Unit Four and the other three reactors, how long might a large area of Europe be uninhabitable?
(a) 75 years.
(b) 100 years.
(c) 250 years.
(d) 500 years.

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

12. 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) Late fall.
(b) Before winter.
(c) December.
(d) November.

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

14. On what date was General Tarakanov summoned to a meeting by coded cipher in Chapter 16?
(a) September 24.
(b) September 3.
(c) September 9.
(d) September 16.

15. 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) 125 kilometers an hour.
(c) 75 kilometers an hour.
(d) Between 50 and 150 kilometers an hour.

Short Answer Questions

1. By Tuesday, April 29, what did the temperature from the reactor drop to?

2. When did the reactor of Unit One come back online?

3. On Tuesday, April 29, how many victims of the accident were hospitalized in Moscow?

4. When were Pravik and Kibenok's bodies buried in Mitino cemetery in the northwest suburbs of Moscow?

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

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