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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. At 100 miles altitude, what percent is the gravity from what it is on the surface?
(a) 75.
(b) 60.
(c) 80.
(d) 95.
2. During what period of time was the temperature about 2 degrees F than at the time the book was written?
(a) 1870 to 1920.
(b) 1900 to 1945.
(c) 1890 to 1925.
(d) 1860 to 1910.
3. When was the Los Alamos Primer declassified and published by the United States?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1970s.
4. What is the distance to the nearest star (other than the sun)?
(a) Around 5 light-years.
(b) 2 light-years.
(c) 8 light-years.
(d) About 4 light-years.
5. At 5 miles per second, how much energy of an equal weight of TNT is carried by every ounce of a space shuttle, including its human cargo?
(a) 5 times.
(b) 10 times.
(c) 12 times.
(d) 8 times.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did China end nuclear bomb tests?
2. How far is the moon from the Earth?
3. When did a pebble bed reactor have to be shut down in Germany?
4. How many watts do humans emit?
5. When did the U.S. and Russia sign a treaty where they promised to reduce their stockpile of nuclear weapons to less than 6,000 each?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 11, what two sides are there to stockpiling weapons?
2. At the time the book was written, what prototype of a nuclear waste facility was developed by the U.S. government?
3. What needs to be understood about global warming?
4. In Chapter 15, what does the author believe is the most efficient way to travel to space?
5. What radiation levels were measured after the Three Mile Island incident, and why were the levels not caused by the accident?
6. What is X-ray backscatter, and what is it used for?
7. In Chapter 13, what are the pros and cons of using depleted uranium in the shells of hydrogen bombs?
8. What happened to the space shuttle Columbia, and why does the author think what happened should not be a suprise?
9. In Chapter 18, what could the author see with night vision binoculars?
10. What are the challenges for people moving in weak gravity?
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