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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 gama rays were the firefighters of Chernobyl exposed to?
(a) 750 billion.
(b) About a quintillion.
(c) Over a quadrillion.
(d) 500 trillion.

2. About how many people near the Chernobyl reactor were thought to have received about 45 rem each?
(a) 40,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 30,000.

3. What is the radius of damage that would be caused by a 1-kiloton blast?
(a) 900 feet.
(b) 300 feet.
(c) 450 feet.
(d) 1,250 feet.

4. In Chapter 5, what was the cost of nautral gass per million cubic feet?
(a) $12.
(b) $15.
(c) $10.
(d) $8.

5. What percent of the energy of gasoline is carried by the best rechargeable batteries?
(a) 27.
(b) 34.
(c) 1.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many watts per square food does overhead sunlight approximately deliver to the ground?

2. How long does the radioactivity of potassium-40 last?

3. In Chapter 8, approximately what percent of people died from cancer of unknown causes?

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

5. When did the Soviets carry out a test of the largest man-made nuclear explosion?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the Davy Crockett weapon?

3. What does the author say about the ineptness of suicide bombers?

4. Why does the author believe solar power is not practical for automobiles?

5. What are hydrogen bombs and their power?

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

7. How does radioactivity go away?

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

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

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

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