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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On Saturday, how many tons of boric acid powder did Sklyarov order be sent from Rovno nuclear power station?
(a) 20.
(b) 15.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

2. Within the first 12 days after the accident, how many bone marrow operations did Alexander Baranov and Rober Gale conduct?
(a) 14.
(b) 12.
(c) 18.
(d) 22.

3. How long could it take for transplanted bone marrow to become sufficiently well established in patients to begin producing blood components?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 11 weeks.
(c) 3 weeks or 2 months.
(d) 2 weeks or a month.

4. Where were Natalia Yuvchenko and her two-year-old son billeted after the evacuation from Pripyat?
(a) Piznyky.
(b) Chornukhy.
(c) Yatsyny.
(d) Lugoviki.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What hours were members of the government commission working in Chapter 11?

2. What was the cost of building the Sarcophagus per day?

3. When did construction begin on the first RBMK reactor in the Soviet Union?

4. What did Brukhanov study at the Polytechnic Institute in Tashkent?

5. In Chapter 16, when did the Politburo publicly promise that the first two of the three remaining Chernobyl reactors would be put back into service?

(see the answer key)

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