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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What material was used to assassinate Alexander Litvinenko?
(a) Tritium.
(b) Potassium-40.
(c) Cobalt-60.
(d) Polonium-210.

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

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

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

6. Exposure to what level of rem will incapacitate you within hours?
(a) 200.
(b) 750.
(c) 300.
(d) 1,000.

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

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

9. When was the last date that anthrax letters were sent in 2001?
(a) December 3.
(b) November 16.
(c) September 28.
(d) October 9.

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

11. In Chapter 5, what was the cost of nautral gass per million cubic feet?
(a) $10.
(b) $15.
(c) $8.
(d) $12.

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

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

14. When did a National Academy of Science report show no significant increase in birth defects of the children of victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2006.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. How many tons of gasoline mixed with air and detonated from a parachute, release the energy of over 100 tons of TNT?

4. When did the United States place an embargo on Japanese oil imports after they invaded China?

5. How many horsepower was the maximum that the author's 1966 Volkswaagen Beetle produced?

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