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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 did Brukhanov study at the Polytechnic Institute in Tashkent?
(a) Electron mechanics, electro technics, and electro technologies.
(b) Theoretical electro-technologies.
(c) Electrical engineering.
(d) Metrology.

2. When did Units Five and Six of the Chernobyl station come online?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1982.

3. In what river basin was the Chernobyl plant constructed?
(a) Pripyat.
(b) Ob-Irtysh.
(c) Lena.
(d) Yenisei.

4. How many heat-resistant zirconium-alloy pressure tubes were in the channels of the RBMK?
(a) 1,800.
(b) 1,600.
(c) 900.
(d) 750.

5. How many times smaller are atoms than the width of a human hair?
(a) 250,000.
(b) A million.
(c) 500,000.
(d) A billion.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the first Soviet atomic bomb detonated on the steppes of Kazakhstan?

2. How old was Vladimir Scherbitsky in 1986?

3. How many roentgen per hour did the radiation dosimeter indicate as Logachev and his men passed the concrete signpost marking the perimeter of the power station grounds?

4. How many rose bushes did Brukhanov wanted planted in 1985?

5. After an explosion at Chelyabinsk-40 in 1957, how many villages were wiped from the map?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Pripyat?

2. What happened to young women hired to paint fluroescent numbers on watch faces?

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

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

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

6. What do Logachev and his crew see when at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station on April 26, 1986?

7. Where can radiation be found?

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

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

10. How did Anatoly Aleksandrov save money with the design of the RBMK?

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