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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where were the dimension of the core of the RBMK?
(a) 15 meters across and 9 meters high.
(b) 12 meters across and 7 meters high.
(c) 10 meters across and 9 meters high.
(d) 20 meters across and 17 meters high.
2. How long had Leonid Toptunov been on the job when he prepared to pilot the shutdown at Chernobyl?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 2 months.
3. When did Soviet scientists complete the first reactor to generate commercial electricity?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1961.
4. 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?
(a) 51.
(b) 29.
(c) 15.
(d) 32.
5. How many heat-resistant zirconium-alloy pressure tubes were in the channels of the RBMK?
(a) 1,600.
(b) 1,800.
(c) 750.
(d) 900.
Short Answer Questions
1. In 1953, how far did a hydrogen bomb tested by the USSR turn the surface of the earth to glass around ground zero?
2. After an explosion at Chelyabinsk-40 in 1957, how many villages were wiped from the map?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. How many rivers and streams formed the Dnieper River basin?
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