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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. Where were Natalia Yuvchenko and her two-year-old son billeted after the evacuation from Pripyat?
(a) Piznyky.
(b) Lugoviki.
(c) Yatsyny.
(d) Chornukhy.

2. 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?
(a) 4 meters high and 25 meters square.
(b) 6 meters high and 40 meters square.
(c) 5 meters high and 30 meters square.
(d) 8 meters high and 60 meters square.

3. In Chapter 13, where did a handful of staff from the Pripyat ispolkom set up an office?
(a) Kiev.
(b) Polesskoye.
(c) Zaymie.
(d) Gomel.

4. On June 5, how long did Gorbachev give Slavsky and his men to complete the sarcophagus around Unit Four?
(a) 3 years.
(b) Until November.
(c) 2 years.
(d) Until September.

5. By the end of May, how many square kilometers of land had become dangerously contaminated?
(a) 4,500.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 6,000.
(d) 5,500.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long could it take for transplanted bone marrow to become sufficiently well established in patients to begin producing blood components?

2. When did Gorbachev finally appear on TV to address the nuclear accident in public?

3. When Natalia Yuvchenko asked about her husband's condition, how long did doctors say it would be before they would know if he would survive?

4. By the end of the week, how many did the New York Post say had died in Ukraine from unconfirmed reports?

5. How fast could the specially manufactured trailers move when delivering the steel beam called the Mammoth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was the head of the Clinical Department of Hospital Number Six in Moscow, and what were her qualifications?

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

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

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

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

6. Why did Alexander Meshkov conclude that the accident was due to operator error?

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

8. At the beginning of Chapter 16, how are General Tarakanov's men dressed to work on the roof above Unit Three?

9. By 2 p.m. on Sunday, what did Swedish authorities conclude?

10. What did U.S. intelligence know about the events at the Chernobyl plant in Chapter 12?

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