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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 after the catastrophe began was an evacuation order issued for Pripyat?

2. When did the first planes from Moscow arrive in Kiev after the Chernobyl accident?

3. How long had Leonid Toptunov been on the job when he prepared to pilot the shutdown at Chernobyl?

4. How many members were on Prushinksky's nuclear emergency response team?

5. On April 26, what time did Vitalii Sklyarov get a call from the central load dispatcher for the Ukrainian grid?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Where can radiation be found?

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

6. How did Anatoly Aleksandrov save money with the design of the RBMK?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Imagery is a literary device authors use to describe something using the five senses to help readers experience what a character is experiencing. How does Higginbotham use imagery to help readers imagine the disaster and the events he relates in Midnight at Chernobyl?

Essay Topic 2

Information about the nuclear disaster was not released right away. How long did it take to release information in the USSR and abroad? Was there a cover-up?

Essay Topic 3

About 2,500 tons of graphite blocks caught on fire in Reactor Number Four. What were the challenges in extinguishing the fire, and why was it so difficult to put it out?

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