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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Cresta's tanks become rusted?
(a) They rust while waiting unused in an open lot.
(b) Salty sea air rusts them during the course of travel.
(c) Someone applies a fluid to them that aids in rusting.
(d) Salt for snow clearing rusts them on the road.

2. What does NTSB conclude about the cause of explosions during the Cresta accidents?
(a) The accidents were caused by fuel-tank rusting from normal wear and tear.
(b) The accidents were caused by sabotage.
(c) The accidents were caused by faulty spark-plugs.
(d) The accidents were caused by improperly treated and corroded steel.

3. 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.

4. What does Yamata discover about the Durling administration soon after Ryan and the U.S. President go to Moscow?
(a) Murray is embezzling national defense funds.
(b) Durling is concealing U.S. military operations.
(c) Kealty is in legal trouble with the FBI.
(d) Kealty accepted a large bribe.

5. What is Cook promised in exchange for his cooperation?
(a) A pardon.
(b) Political power.
(c) Amnesty.
(d) Money.

6. Which of the following is most important in Yamata's plan to bring down America?
(a) Surprise.
(b) International opinion.
(c) Force.
(d) Technology.

7. What event causes the U.S. administration to plan a trip to Moscow to celebrate?
(a) The dismantling of the last U.S. nuclear missile.
(b) The second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.
(c) The dismantling of the last Russian nuclear missile.
(d) The signing of a new non-proliferation act.

8. What crime is Vice President Ed Kealty accused of committing?
(a) Insider trading.
(b) Embezzlement.
(c) Rape.
(d) Murder.

9. Where are some of the defective tanks shipped?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) California.
(d) Colorado.

10. What is the state of Japan when the novel begins?
(a) It's government is shaky and could fall to an unfriendly opposition.
(b) It cut off all diplomatic relations.
(c) It is militarizing openly and rapidly.
(d) It annexed many islands that surround it.

11. Where does Raizo Yamata buy land?
(a) Hokkaido.
(b) Kyushu.
(c) Saipan.
(d) Kamchatka.

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

13. What is the state of the Middle-East when the novel begins?
(a) It is rife with sectarian and racial violence.
(b) It is relatively peaceful, many nations have non-aggression pacts.
(c) The Islamic sects are splitting apart.
(d) Israel is being forced to cede land to Egypt.

14. What is the reaction of the zaibatsu to the Trade Reform Act?
(a) They protest it as being anti-competitive.
(b) They are unaware of the danger it puts them in.
(c) They panic.
(d) They scoff at it.

15. About how much has U.S. military power been reduced from its former capacity?
(a) By about one half.
(b) By about one third.
(c) By 80 percent.
(d) By 20 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Chavez able to contact in the U.S. from Saipan during the initial Japanese attacks?

2. What danger does the Trade Reform Act pose for Japan?

3. What is the first step in Yamata's plan for responding to the Trade Reform Act?

4. How often do U.S. Japanese war game exercises take place?

5. When Ryan and the U.S. President are going to Moscow, what is being done with the nuclear warheads that Yamata possesses?

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