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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best describes how the remainder of the trip to the port went?
(a) Complicated
(b) Without incident
(c) Major incidents
(d) Minor incidents

2. What continues to be a problem on board of the Red October?
(a) Spying
(b) Lack of communication
(c) Reactor
(d) Mistrust

3. Who are sent to inspect the Red October?
(a) KGB officers
(b) A group of intelligence officers
(c) Members of the Invincible
(d) Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee

4. On the eleventh day, what activity is continuing to occur on the Red October?
(a) Look for the radiation leak
(b) Telling the crew of the mission
(c) Search for defectors
(d) Look for the planted spy

5. How does Ramius plan to get his crew off of the ship?
(a) Tells them the ship is damaged and they must evacuate
(b) Sinks the ship and relies on the Americans to save them
(c) Simply orders them to abandon ship
(d) Tells them they are under attack by the Americans

6. Which of the following idioms describes the feelings on both sides of the conflict on the tenth day?
(a) Blessing in disguise
(b) A piece of cake
(c) On edge
(d) Over the top

7. Over what do the Americans and Soviets bond?
(a) Food
(b) Videos
(c) Photographs
(d) Music

8. What message does the Invincible send to the Red October?
(a) You're being chased
(b) Surrender or else
(c) We won't harm you
(d) Do not submerge again

9. Which word best describes how the Russian sailors react to what they see in the United States?
(a) Amazed
(b) Disgusted
(c) Unaffected
(d) Ambivalent

10. Which of the following seems to be of most concern to Jack Ryan?
(a) Work
(b) History
(c) Family
(d) Debt to country

11. In what city does the Red October end up?
(a) Norfolk
(b) New York
(c) Washington
(d) Miami

12. What has the Dallas succeeded in doing?
(a) Locking on to the Red October
(b) Destroying the Red October
(c) Decoding secret Soviet messages
(d) Finding the Ethan Allen

13. How do the three ships identify the Konovalov is still around?
(a) The Russians on board
(b) Distinctive looks when seen
(c) Distinctive sound
(d) Sonar

14. Where is Filitov located?
(a) Washington
(b) Moscow
(c) Lithuania
(d) Aboard a sub

15. How many missiles were fired at the American planes by the Russians?
(a) 5
(b) 4
(c) 10
(d) 3

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following has it been confirmed by reading are involved in the defection plot on the Red October?

2. What does the President want from Henderson?

3. Weapons on both sides can best be described as what on the tenth day?

4. In what month does this story take place?

5. What does the Pentagon want to tell the Red October on the twelfth day?

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