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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much power can a healthy person produce by pedaling a bicycle?
(a) 3/4 horsepower.
(b) 1/7 horsepower.
(c) 1/3 horsepower.
(d) 1 horsepower.

2. How many horsepower was the maximum that the author's 1966 Volkswaagen Beetle produced?
(a) 125.
(b) 75.
(c) 50.
(d) 100.

3. How many tons of coal did the author say that the U.S. had in reserves in Chapter 7?
(a) 11 billion.
(b) About 3 trillion.
(c) 4 billion.
(d) About 2 trillion.

4. Of those killed by the Hiroshima atomic bomb, what is the best estimate of the percent of people who died of radiation-induced cancer?
(a) 11.
(b) 2.
(c) 25.
(d) 3.

5. How many gama rays were the firefighters of Chernobyl exposed to?
(a) About a quintillion.
(b) 500 trillion.
(c) 750 billion.
(d) Over a quadrillion.

6. When did North Korea test its first atomic bomb?
(a) July 11, 2006.
(b) October 9, 2006.
(c) January 7, 2006.
(d) November 18, 2006.

7. In Chapter 8, approximately what percent of people died from cancer of unknown causes?
(a) 25.
(b) 15.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

8. How many joules does one food calorie contain?
(a) 3,700.
(b) 4,800.
(c) Around 3,900.
(d) About 4,200.

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

10. At what temperature did the columns of the World Trade Center become vulnerable to buckling?
(a) 1,500 degrees F.
(b) 1,200 degrees F.
(c) 1,800 degrees F.
(d) 1,100 degrees F.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the blast radius of the M83 bombs carried by the B-52s?

2. When was gasoline a key component of the Molotov cocktails used in Spain?

3. What size blade could a knife have before 9/11 to be carried on board a plane?

4. How many satellites needed to be in view for a GPS system to work on a plane?

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

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