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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was the blast radius of the M83 bombs carried by the B-52s?
(a) 4 miles.
(b) 2 miles.
(c) 5 miles.
(d) 8 miles.
2. When did a nuclear power plant near Chernobyl in the Ukraine have a violent accident?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1987.
3. How long were the steel columns of the World Trade Center designed to maintain their strength during an ordinary fire?
(a) 6 hours.
(b) 2 to 3 hours.
(c) 1 hour.
(d) 4 to 5 hours.
4. How many people died from the anthrax letters sent after 9/11?
(a) 5.
(b) 28.
(c) 36.
(d) 17.
5. In Chapter 8, approximately what percent of people died from cancer of unknown causes?
(a) 30.
(b) 20.
(c) 25.
(d) 15.
Short Answer Questions
1. How much more natural radioactivity are people living in Denver exposed to than someone in New York City?
2. How much bomb-grade uranium or plutonium would be needed to make a weapon in the kiloton range?
3. When was it rumored that Saddam Hussein tested a dirty bomb?
4. When did President Reagan announced that he had reduced the total yield of the U.S. nuclear arsenal?
5. How many square miles of sunlight at midday could provide a gigawatt of electric power?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does radioactivity go away?
2. Why does the author believe solar power is not practical for automobiles?
3. How does food compare in energy to gasoline and to TNT?
4. What was the Davy Crockett weapon?
5. What anecdote does the author share regarding a conversation between one of his student's and a physicist?
6. What are some things that are and are not radioactive?
7. How might a solar plane be useful for surveillance?
8. What happened to anthrax that was grown in Soviet laboratories, and what threat could it still pose?
9. Where is most oil found underground, and how can it be extracted?
10. In Chapter 7, was the United States running out of fossil fuels?
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