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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. When was the first major accident involving an RBMK reactor?
(a) December 4, 1975.
(b) September 20, 1975.
(c) October 17, 1975.
(d) November 30, 1975.

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

3. What did Brukhanov study at the Polytechnic Institute in Tashkent?
(a) Electrical engineering.
(b) Metrology.
(c) Theoretical electro-technologies.
(d) Electron mechanics, electro technics, and electro technologies.

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

5. How old was Vladimir Scherbitsky in 1986?
(a) 64.
(b) 60.
(c) 61.
(d) 68.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many months after Hiroshima was bombed, did an additional 37,000 people die?

2. By the time a scientist from the Kurchatov Insitute warned that the design for the RBMK was too dangerous to be put into civilian operation, how many RBKTs had the government already decreed be built?

3. How long after the catastrophe began was an evacuation order issued for Pripyat?

4. At the end of the Prologue, what was the reading of roentgen an hour on the radiometer?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why was the turbine generator test on April 25, 1986, late in getting started?

5. What was Alexander Esaulov's job in 1986?

6. What was Pripyat?

7. What did Yuvchenko and Tregub find when they tried to manually turn on the taps of the emergency high-pressure cooland system aand food the reactor core with water?

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

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

10. What do Logachev and his crew see when at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station on April 26, 1986?

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