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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue-Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Units Five and Six of the Chernobyl station come online?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1989.

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

3. When was the first Soviet atomic bomb detonated on the steppes of Kazakhstan?
(a) September 3, 1949.
(b) June 5, 1949.
(c) July 18, 1949.
(d) August 29, 1949.

4. When did Soviet scientists complete the first reactor to generate commercial electricity?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1963.

5. 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) U.S. Capitol.
(d) Library of Congress.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After an explosion at Chelyabinsk-40 in 1957, how many villages were wiped from the map?

3. How many rose bushes did Brukhanov wanted planted in 1985?

4. At the end of the Prologue, what was the reading of roentgen an hour on the radiometer?

5. In what river basin was the Chernobyl plant constructed?

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