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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the CIA operative Chet Nomuri's mission?
(a) To gather information on the ziabatsu-Goto connection.
(b) To kill Yamata.
(c) To undermine Goto's campaign.
(d) To infiltrate and assassinate the ziabatsu.

2. What do Ryan and Durling intend to do about Kimberly's death?
(a) Expose Yamata's involvement.
(b) Use it to blackmail Goto.
(c) Cover it up.
(d) Protest it.

3. Why do the President and Ryan go to Moscow soon after Kimberly Norton's death?
(a) To gather information on Yamata's movements.
(b) To discuss strategy with Russian officials.
(c) To celebrate the dismantling of the last nuclear missiles.
(d) To participate in a peace conference.

4. What is the first step in Yamata's plan for responding to the Trade Reform Act?
(a) To organize a boycott of American goods.
(b) To cut off all trade with America.
(c) To call for a tariff on American goods.
(d) To topple the current government.

5. What causes the Diet to render a no-confidence vote against Koga, the prime minister of Japan?
(a) The government debt goes out of contol.
(b) Scandalous charges are brought against him.
(c) The Japanese stock market plummets.
(d) Unemployment hits record levels.

6. What is Ron Jones' position in the U.S. Navy?
(a) Retired Admiral.
(b) Captain.
(c) Rear Admiral.
(d) Civilian contractor.

7. What development occurs in the FBI investigation on Vice-President Kealty shortly after the NTSB investigation?
(a) The FBI drops the case.
(b) The FBI amasses enough evidence to arrest him.
(c) President Durling grants him a pardon.
(d) Kealty flees the country.

8. What is the result of Koga's resignation?
(a) Goto becomes the Prime Minister.
(b) The zaibatsu are overthrown.
(c) Riots break out across the country.
(d) A general election is immediately held.

9. What new technology is Japan eager to test during the war games?
(a) A new radar system.
(b) Hydroplaning attack boats.
(c) Infrared night-vision.
(d) Satellite battlefield imagery.

10. What locations is Chet Nomuri ordered to continue frequenting?
(a) Specific tea and bathhouses.
(b) Certain parks and temples.
(c) The neighborhoods of certain zaibatsu.
(d) The downtown and financial districts of Tokyo.

11. What is happening to the global stock of nuclear weapons when the novel begins?
(a) Many private companies are secretly developing these weapons.
(b) Both the U.S. and Russia are disposing of their weapons.
(c) Both the U.S. and Russia are stockpiling weapons.
(d) Most major countries have nuclear weapons.

12. How does the NTSB determine the cause of the Cresta accidents?
(a) They are coerced into making their statement.
(b) They find incriminating evidence from the Japanese manufacter.
(c) Physical inspection and laboratory tests.
(d) X-ray analysis and magnetic resonance imaging.

13. What is the result of the initial Japanese strike against the U.S. Navy?
(a) Three battleships are sunk.
(b) Dozens of destroyers and a few cruisers are sunk.
(c) The U.S. fleet becomes totally disorganized.
(d) Two carriers are damaged and two subs are destroyed.

14. What is Russia paying a Japanese firm for in Siberia?
(a) To dismantle missile silos.
(b) To build an oil well.
(c) Information on mineral resources.
(d) A geological study.

15. How does Nomuri find Kimberly Norton's home address?
(a) He spies on her remotely using a drone.
(b) He tricks one of Goto's clerks.
(c) He follows her home.
(d) He breaks into an online database.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other island do Japanese troops take over in their first strikes?

2. Why does Cook agree to sell information to Nagumo?

3. What is Bill Murray's position?

4. How many people are killed in the accident that leads to an NTSB investigation?

5. Where are some of the defective tanks shipped?

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