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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If operators faced a situation calling for an emergency shutdown of an RBMK, how long would it take to gradually reduce the reactor's power to zero?
(a) 16 to 28 seconds.
(b) 18 to 21 seconds.
(c) 20 to 35 seconds.
(d) 15 to 30 seconds.

2. In the RBMK, to what temperature did the water rise?
(a) 318 degrees centigrade.
(b) 300 degrees centigrade.
(c) 205 degrees centigrade.
(d) 280 degrees centigrade.

3. In 1953, how far did a hydrogen bomb tested by the USSR turn the surface of the earth to glass around ground zero?
(a) 7 kilometers.
(b) 6 kilometers.
(c) 4 kilometers.
(d) 5 kilometers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much energy were the high-power channel-type reactors theoretically capable of generating?

3. How long had Leonid Toptunov been on the job when he prepared to pilot the shutdown at Chernobyl?

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

5. After the explosion, how many safey valves were open in Unit Four control room?

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