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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. By Sunday, how many helicopters did General Antoshkin command?
2. How old was Alexander Logachev in 1986?
3. In 1970, how many Soviet citizens had Communist Party membership?
4. When was the reactor design called the RBMK-1000 complete?
5. What building in Washington, D.C. is so radioactive that the bulding would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was happening with Unit Four on Saturday evening?
2. What did Georgi Kopchinsky and other nuclear experts learn about the disaster at Chernobyl from a call?
3. What did Yuvchenko and Tregub find when they tried to manually turn on the taps of the emergency high-pressure cooland system aand food the reactor core with water?
4. What happened at Three Mile Island nuclear power station on March 28, 1979?
5. Why was the turbine generator test on April 25, 1986, late in getting started?
6. What was the emergency bunker like at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?
7. What was the situation at the Chernobyl plant by 6:35 a.m. on April 26?
8. What did Korol do when he got to the hospital looking for his friend Toptunov?
9. How was the area cleaned up after a massive explosion occured inside the perimeter of Chelyabinsk-40 in 1957?
10. When did people in Pripyat begin to realize something was happening?
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
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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