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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the Davy Crockett nuclear device exploded in a test?
(a) November 1962.
(b) March 1962.
(c) July 1962.
(d) February 1962.

3. What is the blast range for each warhead carried on nuclear missiles in Chapter 2?
(a) Over half a mile.
(b) About a quarter mile.
(c) 2 miles.
(d) 3 1/2 miles.

4. How many satellites needed to be in view for a GPS system to work on a plane?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

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

6. How many Chernobyl thyroid cancer victims died?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 13.
(d) 9.

7. How long does the radioactivity of potassium-40 last?
(a) A billion years.
(b) 100,000 years.
(c) 9 trillion years.
(d) 2 million years.

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

9. How long does the radioactivity of iodine-131 last?
(a) 5 months.
(b) A few weeks.
(c) 2 years.
(d) A month.

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

11. How much of a rem is in tooth X-rays?
(a) 1/750.
(b) 1/500.
(c) 1/2000.
(d) 1/1000.

12. When was it rumored that Saddam Hussein tested a dirty bomb?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1979.

13. How much of a half-life does carbon-14 have?
(a) 4,592 years.
(b) 5,730 years.
(c) 3,910 years.
(d) 2,840 years.

14. When did the United States place an embargo on Japanese oil imports after they invaded China?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1938.

15. When did a nuclear power plant near Chernobyl in the Ukraine have a violent accident?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1985.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many deaths did the United Nations estimate around the world were caused by radiation from Chernobyl?

2. Of those killed by the Hiroshima atomic bomb, what is the best estimate of the percent of people who died of radiation-induced cancer?

3. When did the United States build a small nuclear weapon called the Davy Crockett?

4. How many watts per square food does overhead sunlight approximately deliver to the ground?

5. In fallout from a nuclear bomb, what material is most likely to cause the most human deaths?

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