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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a pebble bed reactor, how deep is the bed of pebbles where the uranium is placed?
(a) 2 1/2 inches.
(b) 3 inches.
(c) 4 inches.
(d) 1 1/2 inches.

2. What percent of the energy of gasoline is carried by the best rechargeable batteries?
(a) 27.
(b) 1.
(c) 8.
(d) 34.

3. How many people died from the anthrax letters sent after 9/11?
(a) 28.
(b) 36.
(c) 5.
(d) 17.

4. In 2007, where was a secret nuclear facility discovered when Israel attacked the country?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Albania.
(c) Pakistan.
(d) Syria.

5. What is the Earth's atmosphere?
(a) 98% nitrogen and oxygen.
(b) 97% nitrogen and oxygen.
(c) 96% nitrogen and oxygen.
(d) 99% nitrogen and oxygen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is much of the uranium obtained?

2. How long were the steel columns of the World Trade Center designed to maintain their strength during an ordinary fire?

3. When was it rumored that Saddam Hussein tested a dirty bomb?

4. If the energy of a space shuttle is turned into heat and the heat transferred to the shuttle, to what temperature will the shuttle's temperature rise to?

5. How many people could be killed by the radioactivity in a nuclear power plant if they ate it?

(see the answer key)

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