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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 watts per square food does overhead sunlight approximately deliver to the ground?
(a) 50.
(b) 200.
(c) 100.
(d) 75.

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

3. How much power can a healthy person produce by pedaling a bicycle?
(a) 1/3 horsepower.
(b) 1/7 horsepower.
(c) 1 horsepower.
(d) 3/4 horsepower.

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

5. What size blade could a knife have before 9/11 to be carried on board a plane?
(a) Less than 4 inches.
(b) Less than 5 inches.
(c) About 3 inches.
(d) About 2 inches.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was it rumored that Saddam Hussein tested a dirty bomb?

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

3. How much of a half-life does carbon-14 have?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What anecdote does the author share regarding a conversation between one of his student's and a physicist?

3. In Chapter 7, was the United States running out of fossil fuels?

4. What are hydrogen bombs and their power?

5. What was the Davy Crockett weapon?

6. How long will the U.S. be able to use coal?

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

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

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

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

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