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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. When did Marion Hubbert do an analysis that showed oil will never completely run out?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1968.
2. How much more energy is typically released by a nuclear chain reaction than an equal weight of TNT?
(a) 15 million times.
(b) 10,000 times.
(c) 20 million times.
(d) 500,000 times.
3. How much energy is released by 60 tons of gasoline?
(a) 750 tons of TNT.
(b) 800 tons of TNT.
(c) 850 tons of TNT.
(d) 900 tons of TNT.
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) 3.
(b) 25.
(c) 2.
(d) 11.
5. When the author had his feet x-rayed as a child, how much radiation did his feet probably receive?
(a) 45 rem.
(b) 50 rem.
(c) 60 rem.
(d) 55 rem.
Short Answer Questions
1. How much bomb-grade uranium or plutonium would be needed to make a weapon in the kiloton range?
2. A ton of TNT is equal to the energy of how many food calories?
3. What was the blast radius of the M83 bombs carried by the B-52s?
4. How many watts per square food does overhead sunlight approximately deliver to the ground?
5. How much did the small nuclear weapon the Davy Crockett weigh?
Short Essay Questions
1. How long will the U.S. be able to use coal?
2. Why does the author believe solar power is not practical for automobiles?
3. What was the Davy Crockett weapon?
4. What is radioactivity and radiation?
5. What must alcohol be made from the U.S. and how is it determined that it has been made properly?
6. What second round of terrorism occured after the 9/11 attacks?
7. Who was Richard Reid, and what did he do?
8. How have gasoline and oil been used in the past?
9. What anecdote does the author share regarding a conversation between one of his student's and a physicist?
10. Under what circumstances might a sophisticated group of terrorists make a weapon in the kiloton range?
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