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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. On Tuesday night in the Ukrainian cities of Rovno and Zhitomir, more than 100 kilometers away, how much did the levels of background radiation increase?
(a) 35 times.
(b) 20 times.
(c) 25 times.
(d) 30 times.

2. If the melted fuel poisoned the drinking water, how many people would be affected?
(a) 25 million.
(b) 30 million.
(c) 40 million.
(d) 45 million.

3. How long was the May Day parade supposed to have been in KIev?
(a) 4 hours.
(b) 1 hour.
(c) 3 hours.
(d) 2 hours.

4. On Tuesday, April 29, how many victims of the accident were hospitalized in Moscow?
(a) About 300.
(b) 75.
(c) Almost 200.
(d) 150.

5. When was Guskova in Mayak to give emergency aid to the victims of the USSR's firs nuclear disaster?
(a) September 1957.
(b) August 1957.
(c) July 1957.
(d) October 1957.

Short Answer Questions

1. If a steam explosion happened and destroyed the rest of Unit Four and the other three reactors, how long might a large area of Europe be uninhabitable?

2. What did Valentina Brukhanov end up doing where she was billeted after being evacuated from Pripyat?

3. When did the trial of Viktor Brukhanov and the other five men accused of causing the disaster at Chernobyl begin?

4. By the end of the first week, how many bone marrow transplants did Dr. Alexander Baranov, head of Hospital Number Six's hematology department oversee?

5. At the end of Chapter 12, what size chamber did theoreticians propose building under Unit Four designed to house a massive, purpose-built water-cooled heat exchanger?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were hundreds of tons of material dropped into the burning reactor every day in Chapter 11?

2. What were the verdicts in the trial of Viktor Brukhanov and the five men tried with him?

3. In Chapter 11, what was a mysterious black carpet found in the banquet hall of the Hotel Polesia?

4. Why did the Ukrainian Minsitry of Health wish to cancel the May Day parade in Kiev, and why was it not canceled?

5. On July 25, how were busloads of Pripyat evacuees allowed to reclaim items from their apartments?

6. What was the process of a bone marrow donation and transplant for the Toptunovas?

7. Why were theorectical physicists concerned about the threat of molten corium, and what solution did they propose?

8. What was the timetable for building a sarcophagus to entomb Reactor Number Four?

9. What was the death toll in September, and why did that become the offical death toll of the accident?

10. What did Regan say about the lack of information from the Soviets regarding the nuclear accident at Chernobyl?

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