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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) Around 10 p.m.
(b) Just before 11 p.m.
(c) 10:45 p.m.
(d) 10:30 p.m.

2. On Sunday, what time did Maria Protsenko notice a lone woman walking into the town carrying a suitcase?
(a) 8:15 p.m.
(b) 7:30 p.m.
(c) 8 p.m.
(d) 7:45 p.m.

3. On April 26, what time did Vitalii Sklyarov get a call from the central load dispatcher for the Ukrainian grid?
(a) 2 a.m.
(b) 2:45 a.m.
(c) 2:15 a.m.
(d) 1:30 a.m.

4. How long had Leonid Toptunov been on the job when he prepared to pilot the shutdown at Chernobyl?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 1 year.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the RBMK, to what temperature did the water rise?

2. When was a name settled on for the Chernobyl plant?

3. How old was Alexander Logachev in 1986?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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