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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. Where did Jessie go to high school?
(a) In Michigan.
(b) In Wyoming.
(c) In Iowa.
(d) In Montana.

2. Where is Pitt on November 3?
(a) Little Inagua Island.
(b) Ragged Island.
(c) Acklins Island.
(d) San Salvador Island.

3. At what time is the clock frozen that is on top of Cathedral Square in old Havana?
(a) 8:14.
(b) 5:15.
(c) 7:24.
(d) 6:21.

4. Who is the only missing member of the Inner Core?
(a) Leonard Hudson.
(b) Dan Fawcett.
(c) Raymond LeBaron.
(d) General Fisher.

5. At the beginning of Chapter 40, how long has Pitt been on the water after escaping the Russian installation?
(a) 15 hours.
(b) 24 hours.
(c) 10 hours.
(d) 20 hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the passageway to the communications center?

2. How high is the Pisto flung when the Amy Bigalow and Ozero Zaysan blow up?

3. How many of Major Borchev's men die in the fight with Clark's men?

4. How long has it been since Castro came down from the mountains of the Sierra Maestra?

5. Pitt is working with a group to move the three ships in Havana. How many engineers can the group find to help?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Pitt and Quintana burst into the communications center?

2. How do the colonists defeat the Russians?

3. Why does the President accuse the Inner Core of murder?

4. Why is Major Gus Hollyman flying scared at the beginning of Chapter 56?

5. What happened to Jessie, Hagen and the Castros who were in Sloppy Joe's when the explosion occurred?

6. What is a Dasher?

7. What does Jessie think she sees while she is sitting at the makeshift hospital waiting to have a cup of coffee with Sandecker and Giordino?

8. How do Pitt and Jessie get into the Swiss Embassy?

9. What is the Soviet's plan to make South and Central American solid extensions of the Soviet Union?

10. What does the President want Steinmetz to do before the Russians land on the moon?

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