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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 4, how many people could have been killed by the anthrax spores mailed to news organizations?
(a) Millions.
(b) Hundreds of thousands.
(c) 575,000.
(d) 350,000.

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

3. What was the blast radius of the M83 bombs carried by the B-52s?
(a) 2 miles.
(b) 8 miles.
(c) 4 miles.
(d) 5 miles.

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

5. At the time the book was written, what company was second in oil reserves only to Saudi Arabia?
(a) Russia.
(b) United States.
(c) Canada.
(d) Iran.

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. In Chapter 7, when oil would rise to what price per barrel did countries take their coal reserves and convert them to oil?
(a) About $60.
(b) About $50.
(c) About $65.
(d) About $55.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many tons of jet fuel did each plane carry in the 9/11 attack?

2. When did a National Academy of Science report show no significant increase in birth defects of the children of victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

3. What is the blast range for each warhead carried on nuclear missiles in Chapter 2?

4. In Chapter 8, approximately what percent of people died from cancer of unknown causes?

5. How many rem was it estimated that survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki received?

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