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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 long will it take to restart the Amy Bigelow's engines?
(a) 4 hours.
(b) 5 hours.
(c) 10 hours.
(d) 1 hour.

2. What type of car comes up behind Jessie, Pitt, and the taxi driver when they are at a fourth checkpoint?
(a) A GAZ-51.
(b) A VAZ-2107.
(c) A Zil.
(d) A Lada.

3. What is the weather like when the President reaches Camp David?
(a) Thunderstorm.
(b) Early snow storm.
(c) Indian summer.
(d) Cold and cloudy.

4. After the Selenos 8 lands on the moon, how long do the Soviets estimate it will take to make contact with the moon base?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 8 hours.
(c) 4 hours.
(d) 6 hours.

5. Why is the President awakened at one in the morning in Chapter 52?
(a) The mission to destroy the communication center on Cayo Santa Maria has been delayed.
(b) The Gettysburg has cast off.
(c) A coded transmission has been intercepted from the Soviets.
(d) The Selenos 8 is preparing to fire weapons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose body do the Soviets say is recovered from the communications center on Cayo Santa Maria?

2. How tall is the tidal wave that results from the explosions of the three ships in the Havana harbor?

3. Who does Polevoi think is behind the raid on the communications center on Cayo Santa Maria?

4. What is the cargo of the Amy Bigelow?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the Soviets believe that the Cubans are responsible for the destruction of the communications center on Cayo Santa Maria?

2. How does Clark die?

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

4. In Chapter 72, where is Velikov taken when his limousine is stopped by a roadblock?

5. What does Raul Castro want Fidel Castro to do?

6. 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?

7. Why doesn't Pitt rendezvous with the rest of the assault team back at the SPUT?

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

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

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

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