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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. How many men worked on the roof removing debris on Tarakanov's team of bio-robots?
(a) 2,976.
(b) 4,211.
(c) 1,976.
(d) 3,828.

2. How old was General Tarakanov in 1986?
(a) 58.
(b) 49.
(c) 61.
(d) 52.

3. How far did the government commission have to withdraw from Pripyat on April 29 because of the radiation levels there?
(a) 19 kilometers.
(b) 31 kilometers.
(c) 23 kilometers.
(d) 5 kilometers.

4. How many rems did Tarakanov collect after 2 weeks inside his command post and several trips to the rooftops?
(a) 156.
(b) 200.
(c) 180.
(d) 195.

5. At the end of Chapter 12, what size chamber did theoreticians propose building under Unit Four designed to house a massive, purpose-built water-cooled heat exchanger?
(a) 4 meters high and 25 meters square.
(b) 5 meters high and 30 meters square.
(c) 8 meters high and 60 meters square.
(d) 6 meters high and 40 meters square.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was the May Day parade supposed to have been in KIev?

2. When Natalia Yuvchenko asked about her husband's condition, how long did doctors say it would be before they would know if he would survive?

3. On April 30, how many hours a day did army reservists pile sacks into parachute canopies and secure them to cargo hard points?

4. How many missions did Vladimir Usatenko complete inside Units Three and Four?

5. At a press conference in Mowcow, how many transplant patients did Gale announce would probably die?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did Mikhail Gorbachev finally address the explosion at Chernobyl?

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

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

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

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

6. On July 25, how were busloads of Pripyat evacuees allowed to reclaim items from their apartments?

7. 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?

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

9. What debate was there regarding how much rem workers cleaning up at Chernobyl could be exposed to?

10. How were hundreds of tons of material dropped into the burning reactor every day in Chapter 11?

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