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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 was the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island?

2. By what time did Interior Ministry troops wearing chemical warfare suits and respirators block access to the Chernobyl plant?

3. When was the first Soviet atomic bomb detonated on the steppes of Kazakhstan?

4. After an explosion at Chelyabinsk-40 in 1957, how many villages were wiped from the map?

5. By morning on Saturday, how many patients were admitted?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Where can radiation be found?

8. Why did Dyatlov struggle to manage the operators and engineers of Chernobyl?

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

10. How was the area cleaned up after a massive explosion occured inside the perimeter of Chelyabinsk-40 in 1957?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

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?

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