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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times less toxic is plutonium that cyanide?
(a) 8.
(b) Around 2.
(c) About 5.
(d) 3.

2. When was it rumored that Saddam Hussein tested a dirty bomb?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1979.

3. When did the U.S. pass a law mandating the use of 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol by 2012?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2006.

4. How many square miles of sunlight at midday could provide a gigawatt of electric power?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. In Chapter 5, how much cheaper was coal than gasoline, for the same energy?
(a) 25 times.
(b) 20 times.
(c) 15 times.
(d) 30 times.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did North Korea have a nuclear weapon test in Chapter 1?

2. In 1974 how much energy did the average refrigerator in the U.S. use?

3. What was the blast radius of the M83 bombs carried by the B-52s?

4. In Section V, how many degrees Fahrenheit does the author say that the Earth's temperature has increased in the last century?

5. When did Marion Hubbert do an analysis that showed oil will never completely run out?

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