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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. If the melted fuel poisoned the drinking water, how many people would be affected?

4. How many hours did it take the cloud of radiation to reach Scandinavia?

5. How many days did Vladimir Usatenko spend inside the zone at Chernobyl?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the verdicts in the trial of Viktor Brukhanov and the five men tried with him?

2. In Chapter 11, what was a mysterious black carpet found in the banquet hall of the Hotel Polesia?

3. What did Regan say about the lack of information from the Soviets regarding the nuclear accident at Chernobyl?

4. How were hundreds of tons of material dropped into the burning reactor every day in Chapter 11?

5. What happened when Brukhanov took time off to visit his wife and son in the Crimea?

6. Who was the head of the Clinical Department of Hospital Number Six in Moscow, and what were her qualifications?

7. Where did Svetlanta Kirichenko and other members of the Pripyat city council set up an office?

8. What was the problem with discovering what happened to the 180 tons of nuclear fuel from Unit Four?

9. By 2 p.m. on Sunday, what did Swedish authorities conclude?

10. What were the charages against Viktor Brukhanov and the other five men who stood accused of causing the disaster at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The China Syndrome was the idea that a meltdown from a nuclear accident could go through any containment structures, through the earth, and then through to China. Why was there concern that the meltdown might escape the building and contaminate the earth? Was there a real danger of that happening?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

The Era of Stagnation was a term coined by Mikhail Gorbachev to describe the economic, political and social policies of the Soviet Union under Brezhnev’s rule. What was the Era of Stagnation? How did it affect the economic, political, and social policies of the USSR?

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