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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. How fast could the specially manufactured trailers move when delivering the steel beam called the Mammoth?
(a) 2 kilometers per hour.
(b) 6 kilometers per hour.
(c) 7 kilometers per hour.
(d) 4 kilometers per hour.

2. When were Pravik and Kibenok's bodies buried in Mitino cemetery in the northwest suburbs of Moscow?
(a) May 13.
(b) May 9.
(c) May 11.
(d) May 19.

3. When did the Ukrainian people vote to declare independence from the USSR?
(a) January 1992.
(b) February 1992.
(c) November 1991.
(d) December 1991.

4. What was the cost of building the Sarcophagus per day?
(a) $1.5 million.
(b) $1.3 million.
(c) $1.7 million.
(d) $2.1 million.

5. In Chapter 16, how high did the levels of radiation reach in Area M?
(a) 10,000 roentgen.
(b) 1,000 roentgen.
(c) 5,000 roentgen.
(d) 2,000 roentgen.

Short Answer Questions

1. By November, how many tons of uranium from the reactor core was still missing?

2. 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?

3. When did the reactor of Unit One come back online?

4. What hours was Colonel Lubomir Mimka working in Chapter 11?

5. How old was Guskova when she was appointed to the new radiation medicine clinic being established at the Institute of Biophysics in Moscow?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What were the charages against Viktor Brukhanov and the other five men who stood accused of causing the disaster at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station?

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

7. What happened when Brukhanov took time off to visit his wife and son in the Crimea?

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

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

10. When did Mikhail Gorbachev finally address the explosion at Chernobyl?

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