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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About how many people near the Chernobyl reactor were thought to have received about 45 rem each?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 40,000.

3. How many times the energy of uranium and plutonium bombs can be released by hydrogen bombs?
(a) 200 times.
(b) About 500 times.
(c) 800 times.
(d) Over 1,000 times.

4. How much more energy is typically released by a nuclear chain reaction than an equal weight of TNT?
(a) 10,000 times.
(b) 15 million times.
(c) 20 million times.
(d) 500,000 times.

5. How large was a plane that was used as a weapon in the 9/11 attack?
(a) 103 tons.
(b) 131 tons.
(c) 158 tons.
(d) 142 tons.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of a half-life does carbon-14 have?

2. What limit in Chapter 8, did the U.S. government set as a limit for the general public's exposure to radioactivity?

3. How long did the author believe it would take for a true power tokamak to become a reality in Chapter 14?

4. At the time the book was written, how much did the GRACE satellites discover that the ice volume in Antarctica is decreasing per year?

5. How much did it cost to launch a pound of anything into orbit in 2008?

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