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

2. How many months after Hiroshima was bombed, did an additional 37,000 people die?

3. How old was Vladimir Scherbitsky in 1986?

4. When was the town of Chernobyl established?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where was Toptunov born and how did he grow up?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Where can radiation be found?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A Sarcophagus was built around Reactor Number Four. Why was a Sarcophagus built around Reactor Number Four, and why was it so difficult to build?

Essay Topic 2

Higginbotham provides background information about events leading to the Chernobyl disaster. How does Higginbotham present background information? Why are backstories important in Midnight in Chernobyl?

Essay Topic 3

The citizens of Pripyat were not evacuated immediately after the nuclear disaster. Why did it take so long to issue an evacuation order?

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