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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 North Korea have a nuclear weapon test in Chapter 1?
(a) October 9, 2006.
(b) September 7, 2004.
(c) March 3, 2005.
(d) February 20, 2007.

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

3. When the book was written, was the the total world production of oil per year?
(a) 40 billion barrels.
(b) 50 billion barrels.
(c) 60 billion barrels.
(d) 30 billion barrels.

4. 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) 11.
(b) 2.
(c) 25.
(d) 3.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Exposure to what level of rem will incapacitate you within hours?

2. About how many people near the Chernobyl reactor were thought to have received about 45 rem each?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What second round of terrorism occured after the 9/11 attacks?

2. What are hydrogen bombs and their power?

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

4. How does radioactivity go away?

5. How did the terrorists who carried out the bombing of the World Trade Center use their basic knowledge of airport security?

6. Why is oil used so widely instead of other types of energy?

7. How have gasoline and oil been used in the past?

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

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

10. What happened to anthrax that was grown in Soviet laboratories, and what threat could it still pose?

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