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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. By nightfall on Saturday, how many doses of potassium iodide arrived at Pripyat?

2. How long did it take Sklyarov to work his way up from a junior technician at a coal-fired power plant to station director?

3. By Sunday, how many helicopters did General Antoshkin command?

4. How old was Vladimir Scherbitsky in 1986?

5. In the RBMK, to what temperature did the water rise?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Vitali Sklyarov's position in 1986, and how did he attain that position?

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

4. Why was Viktor Brukhanov made the director of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station?

5. When did Anatoly Dyatlov begin working at Chernobyl and what was his background?

6. 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?

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

8. How did Toptunov qualify as a senior reactor control engineer?

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

10. How was the area cleaned up after a massive explosion occured inside the perimeter of Chelyabinsk-40 in 1957?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Valery Legasov and Evgeny Velikhov both work on a team in Chernobyl. Why were the men rivals? How did the competition between them affect their work in Chernoby?

Essay Topic 2

Imagery is a literary device authors use to describe something using the five senses to help readers experience what a character is experiencing. How does Higginbotham use imagery to help readers imagine the disaster and the events he relates in Midnight at Chernobyl?

Essay Topic 3

Higginbotham is the author of Midnight at Chernobyl. Is he a trustworthy narrator of the disaster?

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