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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. 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?
(a) 250 years.
(b) 75 years.
(c) 500 years.
(d) 100 years.

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

3. In Chapter 13, where did a handful of staff from the Pripyat ispolkom set up an office?
(a) Polesskoye.
(b) Gomel.
(c) Kiev.
(d) Zaymie.

4. By November, how many tons of uranium from the reactor core was still missing?
(a) 165.
(b) 180.
(c) 155.
(d) 170.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did every refugee from Pripyat receive from the Soviet Red Cross Society?

2. In the first three days, what was the most that one pilot returned from Reactor Number Four?

3. What was the cost of building the Sarcophagus per day?

4. How many days did Vladimir Usatenko spend inside the zone at Chernobyl?

5. When was the Mammoth beam finally lowered into place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the China Syndrome, and why was it a concern?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 16, how are General Tarakanov's men dressed to work on the roof above Unit Three?

3. What invisible cloud of radiation came from the core and spread on the winds?

4. What was the process of a bone marrow donation and transplant for the Toptunovas?

5. What were the charages against Viktor Brukhanov and the other five men who stood accused of causing the disaster at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station?

6. Why were theorectical physicists concerned about the threat of molten corium, and what solution did they propose?

7. Why did Alexander Meshkov conclude that the accident was due to operator error?

8. What did Maria Protsenko finally learn about the possibility of returning to Pripyat?

9. What was the problem with discovering what happened to the 180 tons of nuclear fuel from Unit Four?

10. Where did Svetlanta Kirichenko and other members of the Pripyat city council set up an office?

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