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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 is the CIA trying to determine?
(a) Purpose of the doors from the photographs
(b) Intent of Soviet navy
(c) Unidentified sounds
(d) What steps to take next

2. Where does Ryan go next?
(a) England
(b) White House
(c) Russia
(d) Home

3. Which of the following is the best definition of reactor as it is used in the novel so far?
(a) A large container or vat
(b) A device that introduces reluctance into a circuit
(c) An apparatus in which a nuclear-fission chain reaction can be started
(d) A thing that undergoes a reaction

4. Which of the following is the best description of the character Jack Ryan?
(a) Military man
(b) Submarine captain
(c) Genius
(d) Family man and academic

5. With which character does Jack Ryan meet at the CIA?
(a) Ramius
(b) Vice Admiral Greer
(c) Natalia
(d) Skip Tyler

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who meets in a secret underground room?

3. Where is the Cardinal on the eighth day?

4. What does the doctor check for radiation on the crew of the Red October?

5. Which of the following characters is the captain of the USS Bremerton?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jack Ryan called in?

2. What does the President reveal to the Russian Ambassador on the ninth day?

3. What ultimatum does the President give to the Russian Ambassador?

4. When the Dallas reports that they believe the unknown sound is an enemy submarine, what does the US Navy order them to do?

5. Who or what is Cardinal?

6. What leads to the death of Ramius's wife?

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

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

9. Why doesn't the Bremerton do much to track the Red October?

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

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