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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. Why is Citibank's stock sold off rapidly?
(a) Yamata orders the zaibatsu to sell it.
(b) It loses financial backing.
(c) Its model is no longer competitive.
(d) Computer programs predict it will suffer most from a declining dollar.

2. In a conversation with Ryan, Murray confirms what rumor about Japan?
(a) They have an alliance with China.
(b) The zaibatsu are really in control there.
(c) They are building nuclear weapons.
(d) American women are being lured there.

3. What danger does the Trade Reform Act pose for Japan?
(a) It would put them at an extreme disadvantage in international trade.
(b) It could slow the vital flow of goods into and out of the country.
(c) It will destroy most of their overseas trade.
(d) It would increase production costs to unworkable levels.

4. What is Russia paying a Japanese firm for in Siberia?
(a) A geological study.
(b) To build an oil well.
(c) Information on mineral resources.
(d) To dismantle missile silos.

5. What is happening to the global stock of nuclear weapons when the novel begins?
(a) Many private companies are secretly developing these weapons.
(b) Both the U.S. and Russia are stockpiling weapons.
(c) Most major countries have nuclear weapons.
(d) Both the U.S. and Russia are disposing of their weapons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yamata want to know about the U.S. and Russian disarmament?

2. What are "zaibatsu"?

3. What does Yamata do with the Columbus Investment Group?

4. Who orders Goto's mistress to be killed?

5. What does the program that Chuck Searls developed do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Ryan's first operation in his new position? How successful is it?

3. Describe the war games held between the U.S. and Japan.

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

5. What unusual rumor about Japan does FBI Director Bill Murray confirm?

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

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

8. How does Chavez get his news of the invasion of Saipan to the U.S. Navy?

9. Describe the first Japanese occupations and landings in the Pacific.

10. What causes the economic collapse in the U.S.?

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