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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. What time did Toptunov set off for the bus stop for his shift at Reactor Number Four on April 25, 1986?
(a) Just before 11 p.m.
(b) 10:45 p.m.
(c) 10:30 p.m.
(d) Around 10 p.m.

2. When was the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island?
(a) May 11, 1979.
(b) March 28, 1979.
(c) June 30, 1979.
(d) April 5, 1979.

3. By 7:30 a.m., how long had Akimov and Toptunov been exposed to to the gamma fields inside Unit 4?
(a) 7 hours.
(b) More than 6 hours.
(c) About 3 hours.
(d) 5 hours.

4. How many years after it was planned for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to finally go critical did it go online?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 20 months.

5. After an explosion at Chelyabinsk-40 in 1957, how many villages were wiped from the map?
(a) 11.
(b) 23.
(c) 18.
(d) 32.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what compartment was Shashenok found unconscious?

2. On Sunday, what time did Maria Protsenko notice a lone woman walking into the town carrying a suitcase?

3. How many heat-resistant zirconium-alloy pressure tubes were in the channels of the RBMK?

4. How many beds did the Pripyat hospital have?

5. Where was the location of the fallout from a clandestine radioactive accident that Logachev traveled to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened at Three Mile Island nuclear power station on March 28, 1979?

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

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

5. Where can radiation be found?

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

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

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

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

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

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