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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 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) 32.
(b) 51.
(c) 15.
(d) 29.

2. How many stories tall was the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?
(a) 18.
(b) 4.
(c) 20.
(d) 11.

3. In 1970, how many Soviet citizens had Communist Party membership?
(a) About 2 in 20.
(b) 4 in 50.
(c) Less than 1 in 15.
(d) 3 in 25.

4. When was the first major accident involving an RBMK reactor?
(a) December 4, 1975.
(b) November 30, 1975.
(c) October 17, 1975.
(d) September 20, 1975.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many trucks from Fire Station Number Two drove up to Unit Four at Chernobyl after the explosion?

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. When was the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island?

4. When was a name settled on for the Chernobyl plant?

5. What building in Washington, D.C. is so radioactive that the bulding would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants?

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