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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 fast does a person falling accelerate from 0 to 66 miles per hour?
(a) 9 seconds.
(b) 11 seconds.
(c) 10 seconds.
(d) 3 seconds.

2. In Chapter 13, where was there a prototype nuclear waste facility?
(a) Arizona.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Nevada.
(d) Utah.

3. How how long could the lasers mentioned in Chapter 14 deliver a power of 500 trillion watts?
(a) 1 nanosecond.
(b) 4 nanoseconds.
(c) 6 nanoseconds.
(d) 5 nanoseconds.

4. How much of the atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide?
(a) 1%.
(b) 0.038%.
(c) 2%.
(d) 0.579%.

5. What type of moderator is used to slow neutrons in a reactor in a power plant in the U.S.?
(a) Ordinary water.
(b) Graphite.
(c) Heavy water.
(d) Beryllium.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what period of time was the temperature about 2 degrees F than at the time the book was written?

2. How many people could be killed by the radioactivity in a nuclear power plant if they ate it?

3. How many astronauts were killed in the space shuttle Columbia explosion?

4. When did China become the biggest source of the carbon dioxide increase?

5. In Chapter 14, how many lasers were in a building at Livermore?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 18, what could the author see with night vision binoculars?

2. At the time the book was written, what prototype of a nuclear waste facility was developed by the U.S. government?

3. What is the weapon paradox?

4. What dangers were there regarding nuclear weapons at the time the book was written?

5. What does Muller say about the safety of a space shuttle?

6. In Chapter 15, what does the author believe is the most efficient way to travel to space?

7. What theory did Milutin Milankovic use to explain the cyclic pattern of the ice ages?

8. What is the main physics problem in fusion reactors, and what are some solutions?

9. What information can be discovered from space?

10. What radiation levels were measured after the Three Mile Island incident, and why were the levels not caused by the accident?

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