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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 did Protsenko's brothers die when she was a baby?

2. When did the first planes from Moscow arrive in Kiev after the Chernobyl accident?

3. How long had Leonid Toptunov been on the job when he prepared to pilot the shutdown at Chernobyl?

4. When did construction begin on the first RBMK reactor in the Soviet Union?

5. How many roentgen per hour did the radiation dosimeter indicate as Logachev and his men passed the concrete signpost marking the perimeter of the power station grounds?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where can radiation be found?

4. What was the size and makeup of the RBMK?

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

6. Why did Maria Protsenko have to hand draw maps of Pripyat?

7. What do Logachev and his crew see when at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station on April 26, 1986?

8. What was Pripyat?

9. What was the emergency bunker like at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

10. What did Korol do when he got to the hospital looking for his friend Toptunov?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Information about the nuclear disaster was not released right away. How long did it take to release information in the USSR and abroad? Was there a cover-up?

Essay Topic 3

The cleanup efforts were described as Sisyphean. What work was required for the clean-up and why were those efforts described as Sisyphean?

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