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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people died from the anthrax letters sent after 9/11?
(a) 28.
(b) 17.
(c) 5.
(d) 36.

2. When did Luis Alvarez and his colleagues discover a way to eliminate the need for high termperature in fusion?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1961.

3. How many watts do humans emit?
(a) 60.
(b) 25.
(c) About 50.
(d) Around 30.

4. How much of the atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide?
(a) 0.579%.
(b) 1%.
(c) 2%.
(d) 0.038%.

5. In Chapter 4, how many people could have been killed by the anthrax spores mailed to news organizations?
(a) Millions.
(b) 575,000.
(c) Hundreds of thousands.
(d) 350,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What size blade could a knife have before 9/11 to be carried on board a plane?

2. When was the Davy Crockett nuclear device exploded in a test?

3. How many people could be killed by the radioactivity in a nuclear power plant if they ate it?

4. If a fusion reactor could be built, how much deuterium and tritium would be needed yearly for a gigawatt power plant?

5. In what country is plutonium-239 not considered nuclear waste?

(see the answer key)

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