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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 development occurs in the FBI investigation on Vice-President Kealty shortly after the NTSB investigation?
(a) President Durling grants him a pardon.
(b) Kealty flees the country.
(c) The FBI drops the case.
(d) The FBI amasses enough evidence to arrest him.

2. In what way has Searls modified his program at Yamata's instruction?
(a) He made it undetectable.
(b) He encrypted its source code.
(c) He turned it into a virus.
(d) He added a "destruction device" to it.

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

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

5. Yamata's Columbus Group leads the new trend in buying what?
(a) Precious metals.
(b) Trade commodities.
(c) U.S. land.
(d) Oil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a Cresta?

2. What is happening to the global stock of nuclear weapons when the novel begins?

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

4. With what nations does Yamata seek secret alliances?

5. What is the current profession of the man Yamata contacts about the information about the Durling Administration?

Short Essay Questions

1. How effective is the Japanese strike against the U.S. Navy? What are the results of this engagement for the Navy?

2. How does Yamata act on the information he gains about the Durling administration?

3. How does the Trade Reform Act negatively impact Japan's economy?

4. Soon after the passing of the Trade Reform Bill, what is the state of the nuclear disarmament between the U.S. and Russia?

5. What does Yamata do with Goto's American mistress?

6. What are Raizo Yamata's goals?

7. What information does Yamata want Seiji Nagumo to acquire from Chris Cook?

8. What kind of software is Yamata developing in America?

9. What is the state of Yamata's nuclear preparations when Ryan and the U.S. President go to Moscow?

10. Why is Ryan considered for the position of National Security Advisor?

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