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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the US Navy order Mancuso to do?
(a) Attack the unknown submarine
(b) Destroy the unknown submarine
(c) Stay away from the unknown submarine
(d) Follow the unknown submarine

2. What is wrong with the surgeon who operates on Ramius's wife?
(a) Ill
(b) Drunk
(c) Uneducated
(d) Inexperienced

3. Where is Jack Ryan located on the second day?
(a) England
(b) Cuba
(c) Moscow
(d) Washington

4. Which character detects a sound on sonar he cannot identify?
(a) Mancuso
(b) Ryan
(c) Ramius
(d) Jones

5. How does Ramius explain the death of Putin?
(a) An accident
(b) That he murdered him
(c) He hides Putin's death from the crew and officers
(d) Natural causes

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is an idiom for the word spy?

2. What does Konovalov assume about the Red October?

3. What kind of ship is the USS New Jersey?

4. Who is coming up with a plan to allow some members of the Red October to return to Russia?

5. In which war was Ramius's father a hero?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the E.S. Politovskiy?

2. What does Ramius do in order to get the things he wants?

3. Why are the Americans not worried that the Red October did not show up for their training exercises?

4. Why is Ramius's letter delayed in it's arrival?

5. Why did Ramius want the doctor and crew to think there was a radiation leak?

6. How does show that Ramius has given much forethought to his planned defection?

7. How does the US government learn that the Red October is trying to defect?

8. In what way does Jack Ryan's role change on the sixth day?

9. Why is Jack Ryan called in?

10. What is Tyler thinking of after his discussion with Greer?

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