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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long were the steel columns of the World Trade Center designed to maintain their strength during an ordinary fire?
(a) 2 to 3 hours.
(b) 4 to 5 hours.
(c) 6 hours.
(d) 1 hour.

2. What is the radius of damage that would be caused by a 1-kiloton blast?
(a) 300 feet.
(b) 900 feet.
(c) 450 feet.
(d) 1,250 feet.

3. How much bomb-grade uranium or plutonium would be needed to make a weapon in the kiloton range?
(a) 15 pounds.
(b) 10 pounds.
(c) 5 pounds.
(d) 20 pounds.

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

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

6. How many watts per square food does overhead sunlight approximately deliver to the ground?
(a) 200.
(b) 100.
(c) 50.
(d) 75.

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

8. How many tons of gasoline mixed with air and detonated from a parachute, release the energy of over 100 tons of TNT?
(a) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

9. How much more natural radioactivity are people living in Denver exposed to than someone in New York City?
(a) 0.8 rem.
(b) 0.2 rem.
(c) 0.5 rem.
(d) 0.1 rem.

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

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

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

13. What limit in Chapter 8, did the U.S. government set as a limit for the general public's exposure to radioactivity?
(a) 1 rem.
(b) 0.1 rem.
(c) 0.9 rem.
(d) 2 rem.

14. What was the efficiency of the best solar cells at the time the book was written?
(a) 41%.
(b) 68%.
(c) 38%.
(d) 52%.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How much larger was a nuclear explosion tested by the Soviets in Chapter 2 than the Hiroshima bomb?

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

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