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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much energy were the high-power channel-type reactors theoretically capable of generating?
(a) 2,500 megawatts.
(b) 1,500 megawatts.
(c) 2,000 megawatts.
(d) 1,000 megawatts.

2. At what time did a purple cone of iridescent flame leap 150 meters into the air around Chernobyl's ventilation stack?
(a) Around 1:24 a.m.
(b) 1:28 a.m.
(c) 1:31 a.m.
(d) Just after 1:25 a.m.

3. When was a name settled on for the Chernobyl plant?
(a) April 9, 1970.
(b) February 20, 1970.
(c) March 11, 1970.
(d) January 24, 1970.

4. At the end of the Prologue, what was the reading of roentgen an hour on the radiometer?
(a) 112.
(b) 215,
(c) 1,090.
(d) 2,080.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By the time a scientist from the Kurchatov Insitute warned that the design for the RBMK was too dangerous to be put into civilian operation, how many RBKTs had the government already decreed be built?

2. The day after the RBMK reactor in Leningrade meltdown, did the Soviet Union's Council of Ministers give approval to how many RBMK-1000 units in Chernobyl?

3. How many roentgen per hour did the radiation dosimeter indicate as Logachev and his men passed the concrete signpost marking the perimeter of the power station grounds?

4. When was the town of Chernobyl established?

5. In 1953, how far did a hydrogen bomb tested by the USSR turn the surface of the earth to glass around ground zero?

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