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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many missiles actually made connection with an American plane?
(a) 3
(b) 1
(c) 5
(d)

2. How do the officers still believe the radiation leak occurred?
(a) Sabotage
(b) Accident
(c) Mechanical failure
(d) They do not know

3. How is the Red October attempting to keep ships at a distance?
(a) Sonar pings
(b) Monitoring turns
(c) Radar movements
(d) Alternating speeds

4. The assembling of the Air Force is meant to do what to the Russians?
(a) Intimidate them
(b) Engage them
(c) Scare them
(d) Surprise them

5. What does the Russian Ambassador accuse the Americans of?
(a) Stealing the Red October
(b) Starting a war
(c) Kidnapping the crew of the Red October
(d) Harming the crew of the Red October

6. What does the Pentagon want to tell the Red October on the twelfth day?
(a) That they know about the defection
(b) Not to approach port
(c) That they have captured an injured sailor
(d) That the radiation leak is real

7. How many days did Jones track the unknown submarine?
(a) 2 weeks
(b) 1 month
(c) 2 days
(d) 5 days

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

9. Where was the injured Russian soldier taken?
(a) Prison hospital
(b) Navy hospital
(c) Russia hospital
(d) Lithuanian hospital

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

11. Which of the following words best describes the situation on the tenth day?
(a) Critical
(b) Standard
(c) Peaceful
(d) Uneventful

12. Which of the following equipment can be used to track vessels and planes in the ocean?
(a) Both of the above answers
(b) Radar
(c) Neither of the above answers
(d) Sonar

13. Who plans a political makeover of the military?
(a) FBI
(b) Politburo
(c) NSA
(d) CIA

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

15. What does the Pentagon think the Soviet Navy is planning in regards to the Red October?
(a) Surrounding it
(b) Leading it back to Russia
(c) Sinking it in the open sea
(d) Trapping it in a port

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of he following characters impresses the Soviets on the Red October?

3. What happens to Williams and Ramius?

4. Who is Filitov's boss?

5. What other vessel heads off to meet the other two ships?

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