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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. On Sunday, what time did Maria Protsenko notice a lone woman walking into the town carrying a suitcase?

2. When did construction begin on the first RBMK reactor in the Soviet Union?

3. When was the town of Chernobyl established?

4. When did the Soviet Council of MInisters issue a decree approving the construction of the RBMKs?

5. During a 4 p.m. meeting, how many hours did attendees believe they had to intervene before a new criticality began?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Georgi Kopchinsky and other nuclear experts learn about the disaster at Chernobyl from a call?

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

4. What did Korol do when he got to the hospital looking for his friend Toptunov?

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

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

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. When did people in Pripyat begin to realize something was happening?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A Sarcophagus was built around Reactor Number Four. Why was a Sarcophagus built around Reactor Number Four, and why was it so difficult to build?

Essay Topic 2

Information about the nuclear disaster was not released right away. How long did it take to release information in the USSR and abroad? Was there a cover-up?

Essay Topic 3

The citizens of Pripyat were not evacuated immediately after the nuclear disaster. Why did it take so long to issue an evacuation order?

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