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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. How many rems did Tarakanov collect after 2 weeks inside his command post and several trips to the rooftops?

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

3. How many rem was it estimated that Andrei Tormozin received, but he still made a complete recovery eventually?

4. Within the first 12 days after the accident, how many bone marrow operations did Alexander Baranov and Rober Gale conduct?

5. How far did fallout composed of 21 different radionuclides form a pattern of intense contamination from the plant?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was the head of the Clinical Department of Hospital Number Six in Moscow, and what were her qualifications?

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

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

5. Why did the Ukrainian Minsitry of Health wish to cancel the May Day parade in Kiev, and why was it not canceled?

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

7. What was the death toll in September, and why did that become the offical death toll of the accident?

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

9. What did Regan say about the lack of information from the Soviets regarding the nuclear accident at Chernobyl?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Era of Stagnation was a term coined by Mikhail Gorbachev to describe the economic, political and social policies of the Soviet Union under Brezhnev’s rule. What was the Era of Stagnation? How did it affect the economic, political, and social policies of the USSR?

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

About 2,500 tons of graphite blocks caught on fire in Reactor Number Four. What were the challenges in extinguishing the fire, and why was it so difficult to put it out?

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