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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At 100 miles altitude, what percent is the gravity from what it is on the surface?
(a) 60.
(b) 80.
(c) 75.
(d) 95.

2. When did the United States go after Osama bin Laden in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan?
(a) 2003.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2000.

3. A ton of TNT is equal to the energy of how many food calories?
(a) 750,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 1 million.

4. When did Luis Alvarez and his colleagues discover a way to eliminate the need for high termperature in fusion?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1963.

5. When did the space shuttle Columbia explode?
(a) March 11, 2003.
(b) April 23, 2003.
(c) February 1, 2003.
(d) January 9, 2003.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many tons of coal did the author say that the U.S. had in reserves in Chapter 7?

2. How much of the radioactivity in the Chernobyl reactor was possible released into the atmosphere?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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