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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. To limit overall radiation exposure, what was the length of the duty tours for the teams of Sredmash US-605 in Chernobyl?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 4 months.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 1 month.

2. At what speeds did the wind currents blow the cloud of radiation northwest across the USSR?
(a) 75 kilometers an hour.
(b) Between 50 and 150 kilometers an hour.
(c) 125 kilometers an hour.
(d) Between 25 and 100 kilometers an hour.

3. When was Dr. Angelina Guskova sent to Chelyabinsk-40 to treat soldiers and Gulag prisoners working in the plutonium factories of the Mayak Production Association?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1953.

4. How far did the government commission have to withdraw from Pripyat on April 29 because of the radiation levels there?
(a) 23 kilometers.
(b) 31 kilometers.
(c) 5 kilometers.
(d) 19 kilometers.

5. At a press conference in Mowcow, how many transplant patients did Gale announce would probably die?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 2/3.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 3/4.

Short Answer Questions

1. From how many designs would the design for the Sarcophagus project be chosen?

2. By the middle of the summer, how much concrete was being churned out every 24 hours by the Sredmash plants?

3. On April 30, how many hours a day did army reservists pile sacks into parachute canopies and secure them to cargo hard points?

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

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

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

3. What did Maria Protsenko finally learn about the possibility of returning to Pripyat?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Where did Svetlanta Kirichenko and other members of the Pripyat city council set up an office?

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