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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 2005.
(b) 2007.
(c) 2006.
(d) 2004.

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

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Marion Hubbert do an analysis that showed oil will never completely run out?

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

3. How large was a plane that was used as a weapon in the 9/11 attack?

4. How much more energy is typically released by a nuclear chain reaction than an equal weight of TNT?

5. What is the radius of damage that would be caused by a 1-kiloton blast?

Short Essay Questions

1. How might a solar plane be useful for surveillance?

2. How does radioactivity go away?

3. What is radioactivity and radiation?

4. What must alcohol be made from the U.S. and how is it determined that it has been made properly?

5. What are hydrogen bombs and their power?

6. What are some things that are and are not radioactive?

7. Who was Richard Reid, and what did he do?

8. What does the author say about the ineptness of suicide bombers?

9. How does food compare in energy to gasoline and to TNT?

10. Under what circumstances might a sophisticated group of terrorists make a weapon in the kiloton range?

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