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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. By nightfall on Saturday, how many doses of potassium iodide arrived at Pripyat?
(a) 40,000.
(b) 37,000.
(c) 23,000.
(d) 19,000.

2. How did Protsenko's brothers die when she was a baby?
(a) Measles.
(b) Diphtheria.
(c) Flu.
(d) Mumps.

3. How many beds did the Pripyat hospital have?
(a) 250.
(b) More than 400.
(c) 650.
(d) About 500.

4. When Volodin and his men passed over Chistogalovka in a helicopter, at what range was the radiometer stuck?
(a) 300 roentgen per hour.
(b) 150 roentgen per hour.
(c) 250 roentgen per hour.
(d) 500 roentgen per hour.

5. By 2 a.m. after the explosion, how many other fire brigades from all over Kiev raced to the plant?
(a) 17.
(b) 16.
(c) 11.
(d) 21.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much energy were the high-power channel-type reactors theoretically capable of generating?

2. After the explosion, how many safey valves were open in Unit Four control room?

3. When was the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island?

4. Where were the dimension of the core of the RBMK?

5. How old was Alexander Logachev in 1986?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Korol do when he got to the hospital looking for his friend Toptunov?

3. Where can radiation be found?

4. What did Yuvchenko and Tregub find when they tried to manually turn on the taps of the emergency high-pressure cooland system aand food the reactor core with water?

5. What was Alexander Esaulov's job in 1986?

6. When did Brukhanov come home briefly, and what news did he bring?

7. What was Vitali Sklyarov's position in 1986, and how did he attain that position?

8. Why was the name of Chernobyl used for the nuclear power plant in the Ukraine in 1970?

9. What was the emergency bunker like at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

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

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