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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. How many square miles of sunlight at midday could provide a gigawatt of electric power?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.
2. How many tons of jet fuel did each plane carry in the 9/11 attack?
(a) 50.
(b) 60.
(c) 55.
(d) 65.
3. What size blade could a knife have before 9/11 to be carried on board a plane?
(a) About 3 inches.
(b) Less than 4 inches.
(c) About 2 inches.
(d) Less than 5 inches.
4. How many tons of gasoline mixed with air and detonated from a parachute, release the energy of over 100 tons of TNT?
(a) 9.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.
5. How much more natural radioactivity are people living in Denver exposed to than someone in New York City?
(a) 0.8 rem.
(b) 0.5 rem.
(c) 0.2 rem.
(d) 0.1 rem.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 6, what was the name of Muller's student in his anecdote?
2. How much more energy is typically released by a nuclear chain reaction than an equal weight of TNT?
3. About how many people near the Chernobyl reactor were thought to have received about 45 rem each?
4. How many joules does one food calorie contain?
5. How much power can a healthy person produce by pedaling a bicycle?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 7, was the United States running out of fossil fuels?
2. How long will the U.S. be able to use coal?
3. What is radioactivity and radiation?
4. How does food compare in energy to gasoline and to TNT?
5. Who was Richard Reid, and what did he do?
6. What second round of terrorism occured after the 9/11 attacks?
7. Why does the author believe solar power is not practical for automobiles?
8. What caused most of the death and damage from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs?
9. Under what circumstances might a sophisticated group of terrorists make a weapon in the kiloton range?
10. What happened to anthrax that was grown in Soviet laboratories, and what threat could it still pose?
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