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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The day after the RBMK reactor in Leningrade meltdown, did the Soviet Union's Council of Ministers give approval to how many RBMK-1000 units in Chernobyl?
(a) Another pair.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) Another 2 pair.

2. When was a name settled on for the Chernobyl plant?
(a) March 11, 1970.
(b) February 20, 1970.
(c) January 24, 1970.
(d) April 9, 1970.

3. On Saturday, how many tons of boric acid powder did Sklyarov order be sent from Rovno nuclear power station?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

4. Where were the dimension of the core of the RBMK?
(a) 12 meters across and 7 meters high.
(b) 15 meters across and 9 meters high.
(c) 20 meters across and 17 meters high.
(d) 10 meters across and 9 meters high.

5. What building in Washington, D.C. is so radioactive that the bulding would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants?
(a) National Archives.
(b) Supreme Court.
(c) U.S. Capitol.
(d) Library of Congress.

Short Answer Questions

1. On Saturday, how far did chemical troops register 30 roentgen per hour from the Chernobyl plant?

2. How many stories tall was the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

3. How many members were on Prushinksky's nuclear emergency response team?

4. When was the reactor design called the RBMK-1000 complete?

5. How old was one of Dyatlov's sons when he died from leukemia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Dyatlov struggle to manage the operators and engineers of Chernobyl?

2. Why did Maria Protsenko have to hand draw maps of Pripyat?

3. Why was the turbine generator test on April 25, 1986, late in getting started?

4. When did Anatoly Dyatlov begin working at Chernobyl and what was his background?

5. Where was Toptunov born and how did he grow up?

6. How was the area cleaned up after a massive explosion occured inside the perimeter of Chelyabinsk-40 in 1957?

7. When were the first of those injured from the accident brought to the Pripyat hospital, and what was their condition?

8. When did people in Pripyat begin to realize something was happening?

9. Where can radiation be found?

10. Why was Viktor Brukhanov made the director of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station?

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