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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many square miles of sunlight at midday could provide a gigawatt of electric power?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

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

3. When did Marion Hubbert do an analysis that showed oil will never completely run out?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1973.

4. How many deaths did the United Nations estimate around the world were caused by radiation from Chernobyl?
(a) 11,000.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 5,000.

5. When did President Reagan announced that he had reduced the total yield of the U.S. nuclear arsenal?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1970s.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What size blade could a knife have before 9/11 to be carried on board a plane?
(a) About 2 inches.
(b) Less than 5 inches.
(c) Less than 4 inches.
(d) About 3 inches.

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

15. How fast was a plane moving that was used as a weapon in the 9/11 attack?
(a) 634 miles per hour.
(b) 545 miles per hour.
(c) 515 miles per hour.
(d) 600 miles per hour.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does the radioactivity of iodine-131 last?

2. How many times the energy of uranium and plutonium bombs can be released by hydrogen bombs?

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

4. When did a nuclear power plant near Chernobyl in the Ukraine have a violent accident?

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

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