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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Protsenko's brothers die when she was a baby?
(a) Flu.
(b) Diphtheria.
(c) Mumps.
(d) Measles.

2. How many roentgen per hour did Alexander Logachev report before 5 p.m. on Saturday after the accident?
(a) 1,800.
(b) 1,020.
(c) 2,080.
(d) 1,110.

3. How long did it take Sklyarov to work his way up from a junior technician at a coal-fired power plant to station director?
(a) 18 years.
(b) 11 years.
(c) 16 years.
(d) 14 years.

4. By nightfall on Saturday, how many doses of potassium iodide arrived at Pripyat?
(a) 40,000.
(b) 19,000.
(c) 37,000.
(d) 23,000.

5. How many years did Georgi Kopchinsky serve as deptuy chief engineer in Chernobyl?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

6. How many beds did the Pripyat hospital have?
(a) 250.
(b) About 500.
(c) More than 400.
(d) 650.

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

8. 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?
(a) Another pair.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) Another 2 pair.

9. How many heat-resistant zirconium-alloy pressure tubes were in the channels of the RBMK?
(a) 900.
(b) 1,600.
(c) 1,800.
(d) 750.

10. How many children attended School Number Four in Pripyat in the 1980s?
(a) 1,750.
(b) 900.
(c) More than 2,000.
(d) About 1,100.

11. How old was one of Dyatlov's sons when he died from leukemia?
(a) 9.
(b) 7.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

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

13. When Volodin and his men passed over Chistogalovka in a helicopter, at what range was the radiometer stuck?
(a) 250 roentgen per hour.
(b) 300 roentgen per hour.
(c) 500 roentgen per hour.
(d) 150 roentgen per hour.

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

15. After the explosion, how many safey valves were open in Unit Four control room?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

Short Answer 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?

2. By 7:30 a.m., how long had Akimov and Toptunov been exposed to to the gamma fields inside Unit 4?

3. How old was Vladimir Scherbitsky in 1986?

4. What time did the USSR energy minister Anatoly Mayorets learn about the accident at Chernobyl?

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

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