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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 many stories tall was the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

2. When was the first major accident involving an RBMK reactor?

3. How much did the biological shield around the RBMK weight?

4. What building in Washington, D.C. is so radioactive that the bulding would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Where can radiation be found?

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

6. 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?

7. What happened to young women hired to paint fluroescent numbers on watch faces?

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

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

10. What was happening with Unit Four on Saturday evening?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

While the fire raged at the nuclear plant, the citizens of Pripyat enjoyed a typical Saturday. How does the way that Higgenbotham compares the frantic situation at the nuclear plant to citizens enjoying a typical Saturday demonstrate the seriousness of the tragedy?

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