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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many kilotons of TNT were used by Al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001?
(a) 1.5.
(b) 1.4.
(c) 1.8.
(d) 2.1.

2. What material was used to assassinate Alexander Litvinenko?
(a) Cobalt-60.
(b) Polonium-210.
(c) Potassium-40.
(d) Tritium.

3. In fallout from a nuclear bomb, what material is most likely to cause the most human deaths?
(a) Strontium-90.
(b) Phosphorus-32.
(c) Polonium-215.
(d) Cesium-137.

4. How many horsepower do car engines deliver?
(a) 150.
(b) 100 to 300.
(c) 50 to 200.
(d) 250.

5. How many tons of gasoline mixed with air and detonated from a parachute, release the energy of over 100 tons of TNT?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 9.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what temperature did the columns of the World Trade Center become vulnerable to buckling?

2. How many people died from the anthrax letters sent after 9/11?

3. When did North Korea test its first atomic bomb?

4. How many gama rays were the firefighters of Chernobyl exposed to?

5. Exposure to what level of rem will incapacitate you within hours?

(see the answer key)

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