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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 joules does one food calorie contain?
(a) About 4,200.
(b) 3,700.
(c) 4,800.
(d) Around 3,900.
2. How much of a rem is in tooth X-rays?
(a) 1/2000.
(b) 1/500.
(c) 1/1000.
(d) 1/750.
3. When the author had his feet x-rayed as a child, how much radiation did his feet probably receive?
(a) 55 rem.
(b) 50 rem.
(c) 45 rem.
(d) 60 rem.
4. What limit in Chapter 8, did the U.S. government set as a limit for the general public's exposure to radioactivity?
(a) 0.1 rem.
(b) 1 rem.
(c) 2 rem.
(d) 0.9 rem.
5. When was the Davy Crockett nuclear device exploded in a test?
(a) February 1962.
(b) November 1962.
(c) March 1962.
(d) July 1962.
Short Answer 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?
2. What was the efficiency of the best solar cells at the time the book was written?
3. How many square miles of sunlight at midday could provide a gigawatt of electric power?
4. How long does the radioactivity of potassium-40 last?
5. A ton of TNT is equal to the energy of how many food calories?
Short Essay Questions
1. How have gasoline and oil been used in the past?
2. What must alcohol be made from the U.S. and how is it determined that it has been made properly?
3. How long will the U.S. be able to use coal?
4. What are hydrogen bombs and their power?
5. What caused most of the death and damage from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs?
6. How does radioactivity go away?
7. How does the energy released by jet fuel or gasoline compare to TNT, and why is TNT used instead of other sources with more energy?
8. How does food compare in energy to gasoline and to TNT?
9. In Chapter 7, was the United States running out of fossil fuels?
10. Under what circumstances might a sophisticated group of terrorists make a weapon in the kiloton range?
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