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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many rivers and streams formed the Dnieper River basin?

2. After the explosion, how many safey valves were open in Unit Four control room?

3. When Volodin and his men passed over Chistogalovka in a helicopter, at what range was the radiometer stuck?

4. When did Soviet scientists complete the first reactor to generate commercial electricity?

5. After an explosion at Chelyabinsk-40 in 1957, how many villages were wiped from the map?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the turbine generator test on April 25, 1986, late in getting started?

2. What was Vitali Sklyarov's position in 1986, and how did he attain that position?

3. When did Anatoly Dyatlov begin working at Chernobyl and what was his background?

4. What was happening with Unit Four on Saturday evening?

5. When did people in Pripyat begin to realize something was happening?

6. Why was the name of Chernobyl used for the nuclear power plant in the Ukraine in 1970?

7. Why did Dyatlov struggle to manage the operators and engineers of Chernobyl?

8. Why was Viktor Brukhanov made the director of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station?

9. How did Anatoly Aleksandrov save money with the design of the RBMK?

10. When did Brukhanov come home briefly, and what news did he bring?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Although Gorbachov’s policy of glasnost was designed to provide more openness in reporting information, the Soviets frequently distorted the truth. How was propaganda used to place the Soviets in the best possible light when discussing the accident?

Essay Topic 2

An investigation into the causes of the nuclear accident was begun right away. How was the investigation conducted? Was it a fair and unbiased investigation?

Essay Topic 3

The Era of Stagnation was a term coined by Mikhail Gorbachev to describe the economic, political and social policies of the Soviet Union under Brezhnev’s rule. What was the Era of Stagnation? How did it affect the economic, political, and social policies of the USSR?

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