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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 2 a.m. after the explosion, how many other fire brigades from all over Kiev raced to the plant?
(a) 11.
(b) 16.
(c) 17.
(d) 21.

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

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

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

5. How many patients did a doctor say needed to evacuated to Moscow at 4 p.m. on Saturday?
(a) 25.
(b) 46.
(c) 30.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the first planes from Moscow arrive in Kiev after the Chernobyl accident?

2. When was the rundown unit supposed to have tested for Reactor Number Four at the Chernobyl plant?

3. When Volodin and his men passed over Chistogalovka in a helicopter, at what range was the radiometer stuck?

4. At what time did a purple cone of iridescent flame leap 150 meters into the air around Chernobyl's ventilation stack?

5. When was the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the size and makeup of the RBMK?

2. What was Pripyat?

3. Why did Maria Protsenko have to hand draw maps of Pripyat?

4. Why did Dyatlov struggle to manage the operators and engineers of Chernobyl?

5. How did Anatoly Aleksandrov save money with the design of the RBMK?

6. Why was the name of Chernobyl used for the nuclear power plant in the Ukraine in 1970?

7. What was the situation at the Chernobyl plant by 6:35 a.m. on April 26?

8. Where can radiation be found?

9. What was the emergency bunker like at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

10. When were the first of those injured from the accident brought to the Pripyat hospital, and what was their condition?

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