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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 months after Hiroshima was bombed, did an additional 37,000 people die?

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

3. What time did Toptunov set off for the bus stop for his shift at Reactor Number Four on April 25, 1986?

4. What building in Washington, D.C. is so radioactive that the bulding would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants?

5. How long did it take Sklyarov to work his way up from a junior technician at a coal-fired power plant to station director?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was Pripyat?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Anatoly Dyatlov was the deputy chief engineer of the Chernobyl power plant. What did Dyatlov’s work experience teach him about reality and bureaucracy in the Soviet Union? Why did bureaucracy usually trump reality?

Essay Topic 2

Radiation is a source of energy. Using examples from Midnight in Chernobyl, why is radiation dangerous?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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