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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 much energy is released by 60 tons of gasoline?

2. How many rem was it estimated that survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki received?

3. What limit in Chapter 8, did the U.S. government set as a limit for the general public's exposure to radioactivity?

4. Exposure to what level of rem will incapacitate you within hours?

5. What percent of the energy of gasoline is carried by the best rechargeable batteries?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to anthrax that was grown in Soviet laboratories, and what threat could it still pose?

2. What is radioactivity and radiation?

3. Where is most oil found underground, and how can it be extracted?

4. How long will the U.S. be able to use coal?

5. In Chapter 7, was the United States running out of fossil fuels?

6. What must alcohol be made from the U.S. and how is it determined that it has been made properly?

7. How have gasoline and oil been used in the past?

8. Under what circumstances might a sophisticated group of terrorists make a weapon in the kiloton range?

9. What caused most of the death and damage from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs?

10. Who was Richard Reid, and what did he do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Space exploration can be manned or unmanned. What are the dangers of space exploration for astronauts? How can unmanned expeditions provide as much or more information than a manned flight? Why would it be safer to stop sending astronauts into space and use robots or computers?

Essay Topic 2

Nuclear waste can take a very long time to become innocuous. How long can it take nuclear waste to become innocuous? Why is it less dangerous than other types of waste created from power generation using other sources of energy like coal?

Essay Topic 3

Muller’s book is based on a class he taught at Berkeley. Why did Muller start the physics class for non-physicists? Why did he write the book?

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