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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) 30 times.
(b) 25 times.
(c) 20 times.
(d) 35 times.

2. How far did fallout composed of 21 different radionuclides form a pattern of intense contamination from the plant?
(a) 200 kilometers.
(b) 250 kilometers.
(c) 300 kilometers.
(d) 350 kilometers.

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

4. How much of an exposure limit did General Antoshkin impose for his men who were dropping material into the burning reactor?
(a) 22 rem.
(b) 25 rem.
(c) 30 rem.
(d) 20 rem.

5. By Sunday, how many men and women from the nuclear plant were admitted to Hospital Number Six?
(a) 184.
(b) 198.
(c) 218.
(d) 207.

Short Answer Questions

1. At a press conference in Mowcow, how many transplant patients did Gale announce would probably die?

2. When was a statement finally issued by TASS regarding the accident at Chernobyl?

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

4. 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?

5. By the end of May, how many square kilometers of land had become dangerously contaminated?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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