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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many rem was it estimated that Andrei Tormozin received, but he still made a complete recovery eventually?
(a) About 580.
(b) 640.
(c) Almost 1,000.
(d) 790.

2. On April 30, how many hours a day did army reservists pile sacks into parachute canopies and secure them to cargo hard points?
(a) 14.
(b) 12.
(c) 16.
(d) 15.

3. When an Army Medical Corps radiologist wore experimental clothing and stepped onto the rooftop in Area M, how much radiation did he absorb in 1 minute and 13 seconds?
(a) 10 rem.
(b) 12 rem.
(c) 17 rem.
(d) 15 rem.

4. From how many designs would the design for the Sarcophagus project be chosen?
(a) 10.
(b) 18.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

5. At what speeds did the wind currents blow the cloud of radiation northwest across the USSR?
(a) Between 25 and 100 kilometers an hour.
(b) Between 50 and 150 kilometers an hour.
(c) 125 kilometers an hour.
(d) 75 kilometers an hour.

6. When was Dr. Angelina Guskova sent to Chelyabinsk-40 to treat soldiers and Gulag prisoners working in the plutonium factories of the Mayak Production Association?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1948.

7. How fast could the specially manufactured trailers move when delivering the steel beam called the Mammoth?
(a) 7 kilometers per hour.
(b) 6 kilometers per hour.
(c) 2 kilometers per hour.
(d) 4 kilometers per hour.

8. On Tuesday night in the Ukrainian cities of Rovno and Zhitomir, more than 100 kilometers away, how much did the levels of background radiation increase?
(a) 30 times.
(b) 25 times.
(c) 35 times.
(d) 20 times.

9. When was the Mammoth beam finally lowered into place?
(a) November 1.
(b) November 4.
(c) October 27.
(d) October 30.

10. At the end of Chapter 10, how far had the contamination from the plant spread?
(a) 35 kilometers.
(b) About 25 kilometers.
(c) As far as 30 kilometers.
(d) 17 kilometers.

11. How many tons could the Mi-26 carry in a single load?
(a) Up to 20.
(b) About 25.
(c) 30.
(d) 15.

12. To limit overall radiation exposure, what was the length of the duty tours for the teams of Sredmash US-605 in Chernobyl?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 2 months.

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

14. When were refugees from Pripyat first allowed to return to their homes and salvage what they could?
(a) July 29.
(b) July 7.
(c) July 11.
(d) July 25.

15. By the end of May, how many square kilometers of land had become dangerously contaminated?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 4,500.
(c) 5,500.
(d) 6,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date was General Tarakanov summoned to a meeting by coded cipher in Chapter 16?

2. 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?

3. What was the Military of Defense standard for the maximum dose of radiation workers could receive safely?

4. When was Guskova in Mayak to give emergency aid to the victims of the USSR's firs nuclear disaster?

5. If a steam explosion happened and destroyed the rest of Unit Four and the other three reactors, how long might a large area of Europe be uninhabitable?

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