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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. Who escapes from the Soviet communications center when Pitt and Quintana break in?
(a) Maisky.
(b) Velikov.
(c) Antonov.
(d) Polevoi.

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

3. What news does Gly bring Gunn and Giordino at the end of Chapter 50?
(a) That the search for them has been called off.
(b) That Jessie is dead.
(c) That Pitt is dead.
(d) That they are being moved to Cuba.

4. What does Lyev Maisky tell General Velikov his new mission will be?
(a) Repair the Prosperteer.
(b) Assassinate Castro.
(c) Kill the Americans.
(d) Bring down the Gettysburg on Cuban soil.

5. When does Fidel Castro intend to expose the Soviet plot to undermine Cuban sovereignty?
(a) On Independence Day.
(b) During Labor Day.
(c) During the Education Day celebration.
(d) On the day of the Triumph of the Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is a piece of the Ozero Zaysan's forward mast found?

2. Who finally kills Foss Gly?

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

4. How does Pitt get out of the Swiss Embassy to meet with the CIA agents?

5. Who watches the Soviets through binoculars while Steinmetz talks with them about a truce?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Giordino throw the coffee cups that he was bringing to Sandecker and Jessie over his shoulder?

3. What does Pitt learn when he calls Weehawken Marine Products?

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

5. How did Raymond LeBaron die?

6. How does Clark die?

7. Why does Pitt decide that the ships are the bombs that the Russians intend to set off in Havana?

8. 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?

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

10. How do the colonists defeat the Russians?

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