View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the cargo of the Ozero Zaysan?
(a) Ammonium nitrate.
(b) Military supplies.
(c) Oil.
(d) Coal.

2. How old is the guard at the fourth checkpoint that Jessie, Pitt, and the taxi driver encounter?
(a) No more than 16.
(b) Around 20.
(c) About 18.
(d) Maybe 17.

3. A man comes walking down the street toward Sandecker, Giordino, and Jessie with a large group of children. What are they singing?
(a) Yankee Doodle.
(b) Ants Go Marching.
(c) Amazing Grace.
(d) Battle Hymn of the Republic.

4. How far away are seagulls crushed by the concussion when the Amy Bigalow and Ozero Zaysan blow up?
(a) 1 mile.
(b) 5 miles.
(c) 1 1/2 miles.
(d) 2 miles.

5. What does Pitt take with him on the Dasher as the assault team prepares to attack Cayo Santa Maria?
(a) A lead pipe.
(b) A switchblade.
(c) A baseball bat.
(d) A gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 40, how much longer does Pitt expect his motor to keep running?

2. Where is Pitt on November 3?

3. How did Jessie meet Raymond?

4. One of the Soviets with all of his life-support equipment would weigh 360 earth pounds. What does he weigh in lunar weight?

5. How far are Pitt, Manny, and the others from the shore when the tidal wave hits?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the President accuse the Inner Core of murder?

2. How do the colonists defeat the Russians?

3. What does the President want Steinmetz to do before the Russians land on the moon?

4. Describe what happened when the Ozero Baykai blew up.

5. What happened when Pitt and Quintana burst into the communications center?

6. What does Pitt do when Martin Brogan implies that he is not telling the truth about his experiences on the island?

7. Why does Giordino throw the coffee cups that he was bringing to Sandecker and Jessie over his shoulder?

8. Why does Pitt decide that the ships are the bombs that the Russians intend to set off in Havana?

9. What is the Soviet's plan to make South and Central American solid extensions of the Soviet Union?

10. What happened to Jessie, Hagen and the Castros who were in Sloppy Joe's when the explosion occurred?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 984 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample