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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) Measles.
(b) Mumps.
(c) Diphtheria.
(d) Flu.

2. At what time did a purple cone of iridescent flame leap 150 meters into the air around Chernobyl's ventilation stack?
(a) Just after 1:25 a.m.
(b) 1:28 a.m.
(c) 1:31 a.m.
(d) Around 1:24 a.m.

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

4. How long had Leonid Toptunov been on the job when he prepared to pilot the shutdown at Chernobyl?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 1 year.

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

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

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

8. Where were the first-draft plans of the RBMK drawn up by a heavy machinery plant?
(a) Stalingrad.
(b) Minsk.
(c) Novodvinsk.
(d) Leningrad.

9. What time did Toptunov set off for the bus stop for his shift at Reactor Number Four on April 25, 1986?
(a) 10:30 p.m.
(b) 10:45 p.m.
(c) Just before 11 p.m.
(d) Around 10 p.m.

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

11. 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) 14 years.
(c) 11 years.
(d) 16 years.

12. When did the first planes from Moscow arrive in Kiev after the Chernobyl accident?
(a) 2 p.m.
(b) 10:30 a.m.
(c) 1 p.m.
(d) 11 a.m.

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

14. What time did Vladimir Shashenok die at the hospital on Saturday?
(a) 5 a.m.
(b) 9 a.m.
(c) 7 a.m.
(d) 6 a.m.

15. How long after the explosion at Chernobyl did the secure high-frequency lines ring at the Union-level ministries in Moscow?
(a) 45 minutes.
(b) 60 minutes.
(c) About 20 minutes.
(d) Less than 30 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 3, how late were the electrical tests on the turbines from when they were scheduled to begin?

2. Where were the dimension of the core of the RBMK?

3. How many heat-resistant zirconium-alloy pressure tubes were in the channels of the RBMK?

4. By 2 a.m. after the explosion, how many other fire brigades from all over Kiev raced to the plant?

5. How old was Vladimir Scherbitsky in 1986?

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