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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. What percent of the energy of gasoline is carried by the best rechargeable batteries?
(a) 27.
(b) 34.
(c) 8.
(d) 1.
2. In Chapter 4, how many people could have been killed by the anthrax spores mailed to news organizations?
(a) 575,000.
(b) 350,000.
(c) Millions.
(d) Hundreds of thousands.
3. How long does the radioactivity of iodine-131 last?
(a) A month.
(b) 5 months.
(c) 2 years.
(d) A few weeks.
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) 2 rem.
(c) 1 rem.
(d) 0.9 rem.
5. What was the blast radius of the M83 bombs carried by the B-52s?
(a) 4 miles.
(b) 2 miles.
(c) 8 miles.
(d) 5 miles.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many Chernobyl thyroid cancer victims died?
2. In Chapter 5, how much cheaper was coal than gasoline, for the same energy?
3. When did the Soviets carry out a test of the largest man-made nuclear explosion?
4. How many beta rays must a fifth of whiskey emit every minute or be considered unfit for human consumption?
5. In Chapter 5, what was the cost of nautral gass per million cubic feet?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the author say about the ineptness of suicide bombers?
2. In Chapter 7, was the United States running out of fossil fuels?
3. Under what circumstances might a sophisticated group of terrorists make a weapon in the kiloton range?
4. What anecdote does the author share regarding a conversation between one of his student's and a physicist?
5. How might a solar plane be useful for surveillance?
6. How does radioactivity go away?
7. What is the greatest threat when it comes to nuclear weapons getting into the hands of terrorists, and why might that be a relatively low threat?
8. Why does the author believe solar power is not practical for automobiles?
9. Who was Richard Reid, and what did he do?
10. What are some things that are and are not radioactive?
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