View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1986, how many voting members were there in the Politburo?
(a) 18.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 10.

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

3. When citizens were removed from Pripyat, how many small towns or villages were used to take them in?
(a) 30.
(b) More than 50.
(c) 45.
(d) About 55.

4. Within the first 12 days after the accident, how many bone marrow operations did Alexander Baranov and Rober Gale conduct?
(a) 12.
(b) 22.
(c) 14.
(d) 18.

5. How many missions did Vladimir Usatenko complete inside Units Three and Four?
(a) 33.
(b) 28.
(c) 31.
(d) 26.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Efim Slavsky when he was asked to resign as the leader of the Sredmash?

2. What was the cost of building the Sarcophagus per day?

3. When did a Soviet air force pilot shoot down a Korean Air jumbo jet?

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

5. How many new dams and filters were built in an attempt to trap contaminated water before it could reach the Pripyat river?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When did Valery Legasov present information about the Chernobyl accident and how accurate was the information he provided?

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

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

6. What debate was there regarding how much rem workers cleaning up at Chernobyl could be exposed to?

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

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

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

10. What invisible cloud of radiation came from the core and spread on the winds?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,106 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample