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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. On Saturday, how far did chemical troops register 30 roentgen per hour from the Chernobyl plant?

2. On Saturday, what time did Essaulov notice ambulances coming from the nuclear plant?

3. How much energy were the high-power channel-type reactors theoretically capable of generating?

4. When Volodin and his men passed over Chistogalovka in a helicopter, at what range was the radiometer stuck?

5. In what compartment was Shashenok found unconscious?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did Brukhanov come home briefly, and what news did he bring?

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

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

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

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

6. What did Georgi Kopchinsky and other nuclear experts learn about the disaster at Chernobyl from a call?

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

8. What was Pripyat?

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

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

Brukhanov and five other men were tried for their role in the nuclear disaster. Was their trial just or unjust?

Essay Topic 2

Chernobyl power station used RBMK reactors. Why and how did design flaws in the RBMK lead to the catastrophe?

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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