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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years after it was planned for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to finally go critical did it go online?
(a) 20 months.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 2 years.

2. Where was the location of the fallout from a clandestine radioactive accident that Logachev traveled to?
(a) East Urals Trace.
(b) Novaya Zemlya.
(c) Khabarovsk-47.
(d) Semipalatinsk.

3. How many months after Hiroshima was bombed, did an additional 37,000 people die?
(a) 8 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 2 months.

4. What building in Washington, D.C. is so radioactive that the bulding would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants?
(a) Supreme Court.
(b) National Archives.
(c) Library of Congress.
(d) U.S. Capitol.

5. In what compartment was Shashenok found unconscious?
(a) 718.
(b) 510.
(c) 604.
(d) 439.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1970, how many Soviet citizens had Communist Party membership?

2. How many patients did a doctor say needed to evacuated to Moscow at 4 p.m. on Saturday?

3. At what time did a purple cone of iridescent flame leap 150 meters into the air around Chernobyl's ventilation stack?

4. How far did the government commission have to withdraw from Pripyat on April 29 because of the radiation levels there?

5. How many heat-resistant zirconium-alloy pressure tubes were in the channels of the RBMK?

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