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Who is George Johnson?

• a travel journalist

• a returnee

• an extreme tourist

• a stalker

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Where is Chernobyl?

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  in Russia

• in Ukraine

• in Pripyat

• in Belarus

What is the exclusion zone?

• a vast, quarantined wilderness that surrounds Chernobyl

• a military base camp managing the cleanup of Chernobyl

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  a camp where irradiated people from Pripyat and Chernobyl now live

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  a small area outside of Chernobyl that is not contaminated by radiation

Who are the "returnees"?

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  residents who insisted on coming back to the area because it is their homeland

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  the few workers who decided to remain on at the plant after the accident

• tourists who have visited Chernobyl multiple times

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  the citizens dedicated to restoring Pripyat to its former glory

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Which of the following describes the current condition of the towns of Pripyat and Chernobyl?

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  abandoned buildings

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  broken glass

• debris from the reactor explosion

• All the above

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What caused the explosion at Chernobyl in 1986?

• Russia dropped an atomic bomb on the plant

• a transformer blew next to one of the reactors

• a power surge caused a nuclear reactor to overheat

• all of the above

What causes of death resulted from the Chernobyl accident?

• The explosion

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  Cancer

• Radiation poisoning

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  All of the above

What is the genre of the " Nuclear Tourist" ?

• Literary fiction

• travel journalism

• narrative

• science fiction

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What techniques do travel journalists use to give readers a vivid impression of a specific place or journey?

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  Factual information

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  Literary techniques

• Personal observations

• All of the above

Descriptions of what a writer sees, hears, feels, tastes, and smells in the experience of a place are all examples of which technique used in travel journalism?

• personal observations

• 
  fact-based information

• 
  literary techniques

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