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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. How many rose bushes did Brukhanov wanted planted in 1985?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 45,000.
(d) 30,000.

2. How many months after Hiroshima was bombed, did an additional 37,000 people die?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 8 months.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 6 months.

3. In 1953, how far did a hydrogen bomb tested by the USSR turn the surface of the earth to glass around ground zero?
(a) 6 kilometers.
(b) 7 kilometers.
(c) 4 kilometers.
(d) 5 kilometers.

4. Where were the first-draft plans of the RBMK drawn up by a heavy machinery plant?
(a) Novodvinsk.
(b) Stalingrad.
(c) Leningrad.
(d) Minsk.

5. How long after the explosion at Chernobyl did the secure high-frequency lines ring at the Union-level ministries in Moscow?
(a) 60 minutes.
(b) About 20 minutes.
(c) Less than 30 minutes.
(d) 45 minutes.

Short Answer 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?

2. When did construction begin on the first RBMK reactor in the Soviet Union?

3. How old was Alexander Logachev in 1986?

4. At the end of Chapter 3, how late were the electrical tests on the turbines from when they were scheduled to begin?

5. What building in Washington, D.C. is so radioactive that the bulding would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was happening with Unit Four on Saturday evening?

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

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

5. What was the situation at the Chernobyl plant by 6:35 a.m. on April 26?

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

7. How did Toptunov qualify as a senior reactor control engineer?

8. What was the size and makeup of the RBMK?

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

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

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