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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 heat-resistant zirconium-alloy pressure tubes were in the channels of the RBMK?

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

3. How many trucks from Fire Station Number Two drove up to Unit Four at Chernobyl after the explosion?

4. When was the rundown unit supposed to have tested for Reactor Number Four at the Chernobyl plant?

5. What time did the USSR energy minister Anatoly Mayorets learn about the accident at Chernobyl?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened at Three Mile Island nuclear power station on March 28, 1979?

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

3. What happened to young women hired to paint fluroescent numbers on watch faces?

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

5. What did Yuvchenko and Tregub find when they tried to manually turn on the taps of the emergency high-pressure cooland system aand food the reactor core with water?

6. What was the situation at the Chernobyl plant by 6:35 a.m. on April 26?

7. When were the first of those injured from the accident brought to the Pripyat hospital, and what was their condition?

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

9. What was Pripyat?

10. What was Alexander Esaulov's job in 1986?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Valery Legasov and Evgeny Velikhov both work on a team in Chernobyl. Why were the men rivals? How did the competition between them affect their work in Chernoby?

Essay Topic 2

While the fire raged at the nuclear plant, the citizens of Pripyat enjoyed a typical Saturday. How does the way that Higgenbotham compares the frantic situation at the nuclear plant to citizens enjoying a typical Saturday demonstrate the seriousness of the tragedy?

Essay Topic 3

Higginbotham is the author of Midnight at Chernobyl. Is he a trustworthy narrator of the disaster?

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