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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How many times the energy of uranium and plutonium bombs can be released by hydrogen bombs?
(a) Over 1,000 times.
(b) About 500 times.
(c) 800 times.
(d) 200 times.

6. How many beta rays must a fifth of whiskey emit every minute or be considered unfit for human consumption?
(a) 200.
(b) 400.
(c) 300.
(d) 500.

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

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

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

10. When was gasoline a key component of the Molotov cocktails used in Spain?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1950s.

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

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

13. How many rem was it estimated that survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki received?
(a) 15.
(b) 25.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

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

15. 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) 2.
(b) 11.
(c) 25.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much power can a healthy person produce by pedaling a bicycle?

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

3. In fallout from a nuclear bomb, what material is most likely to cause the most human deaths?

4. In Chapter 5, what was the cost of nautral gass per million cubic feet?

5. How many people died from the anthrax letters sent after 9/11?

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