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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 much did every refugee from Pripyat receive from the Soviet Red Cross Society?
2. At a press conference in Mowcow, how many transplant patients did Gale announce would probably die?
3. By the end of the first week, how many bone marrow transplants did Dr. Alexander Baranov, head of Hospital Number Six's hematology department oversee?
4. When were refugees from Pripyat first allowed to return to their homes and salvage what they could?
5. What hours were members of the government commission working in Chapter 11?
Short Essay Questions
1. At the beginning of Chapter 16, how are General Tarakanov's men dressed to work on the roof above Unit Three?
2. What debate was there regarding how much rem workers cleaning up at Chernobyl could be exposed to?
3. When did Mikhail Gorbachev finally address the explosion at Chernobyl?
4. What was the process of a bone marrow donation and transplant for the Toptunovas?
5. What invisible cloud of radiation came from the core and spread on the winds?
6. What did U.S. intelligence know about the events at the Chernobyl plant in Chapter 12?
7. Why were theorectical physicists concerned about the threat of molten corium, and what solution did they propose?
8. Why did the Ukrainian Minsitry of Health wish to cancel the May Day parade in Kiev, and why was it not canceled?
9. What were the verdicts in the trial of Viktor Brukhanov and the five men tried with him?
10. Why did Alexander Meshkov conclude that the accident was due to operator error?
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
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?
Essay Topic 3
Higginbotham is the author of Midnight at Chernobyl. Is he a trustworthy narrator of the disaster?
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