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

2. Why does the Dallas surface?
(a) To avoid being tracked by a Soviet sub
(b) To track the Red October
(c) To communicate
(d) To get new orders

3. At the end of the novel, what happens to most of the characters?
(a) Returned to Russia
(b) Go back to their lives
(c) Held in custody
(d) Return to CIA headquarters

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

5. What do the Americans offer the crew of the Red October?
(a) A place to live
(b) Nothing
(c) A place to eat
(d) Ability to defect

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the Red October attempting to keep ships at a distance?

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

3. What happens to Ramius?

4. Who was assigned to watch the injured Russian sailor's recovery?

5. Who assembles to fight the Russian Army?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the radiation scare on the Red October allow the officers to do?

2. What leads to the arrest of a congressional aide in Washington?

3. In relation to the plan to help some of the Russian sailors defect, what positive step occurs related to Ryan occurs on the twelfth day?

4. What about the injured Russian, who is identified simply as a cook is suspenseful?

5. What do the American Tom Cats do to make the Russian pilots think they are attacking?

6. What does the incident of the KGB agent almost lighting a cigarette near the oxygen tanks show to the reader?

7. What happens when the Russians fire missiles at the American Tom Cats?

8. What is learned about the Ethan Allen on the tenth day?

9. What argument does the President make when the Russian Ambassador accuses the Americans of trying to kidnap the crew of the Red October?

10. Describe Jack Ryan and what he feels is most important.

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