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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 the time a scientist from the Kurchatov Insitute warned that the design for the RBMK was too dangerous to be put into civilian operation, how many RBKTs had the government already decreed be built?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

2. How long did it take Sklyarov to work his way up from a junior technician at a coal-fired power plant to station director?
(a) 14 years.
(b) 11 years.
(c) 18 years.
(d) 16 years.

3. How old was one of Dyatlov's sons when he died from leukemia?
(a) 9.
(b) 10.
(c) 7.
(d) 8.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1956, how long did Igor Kurchatov believe it would take to create a network of giant nuclear power stations and produce 2 million kilowatts?

2. How long after the explosion at Chernobyl did the secure high-frequency lines ring at the Union-level ministries in Moscow?

3. How did Protsenko's brothers die when she was a baby?

4. What time did Vladimir Shashenok die at the hospital on Saturday?

5. How many months after Hiroshima was bombed, did an additional 37,000 people die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Where can radiation be found?

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

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

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

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