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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 long had Leonid Toptunov been on the job when he prepared to pilot the shutdown at Chernobyl?
2. How many patients did a doctor say needed to evacuated to Moscow at 4 p.m. on Saturday?
3. The day after the RBMK reactor in Leningrade meltdown, did the Soviet Union's Council of Ministers give approval to how many RBMK-1000 units in Chernobyl?
4. In 1986, how many vehicles did Logachev lead to an emergency at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?
5. In 1983, how many known nuclear accidents had there been and where was the accident?
Short Essay Questions
1. How was the area cleaned up after a massive explosion occured inside the perimeter of Chelyabinsk-40 in 1957?
2. What happened at Three Mile Island nuclear power station on March 28, 1979?
3. When did Anatoly Dyatlov begin working at Chernobyl and what was his background?
4. Why did Dyatlov struggle to manage the operators and engineers of Chernobyl?
5. When did Brukhanov come home briefly, and what news did he bring?
6. Where was Toptunov born and how did he grow up?
7. What was Vitali Sklyarov's position in 1986, and how did he attain that position?
8. When were the first of those injured from the accident brought to the Pripyat hospital, and what was their condition?
9. What was the size and makeup of the RBMK?
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
The cleanup efforts were described as Sisyphean. What work was required for the clean-up and why were those efforts described as Sisyphean?
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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