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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Eighth Day, Friday, 10 December.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ryan go to the USS Kennedy?
(a) To deliver secret CIA files to the Cardinal
(b) To provide orders to sink the Red October
(c) To tell them about the Red October
(d) To promote his next book

2. Which of the following characters taught Ramius to love the sea?
(a) Natalia
(b) His grandmother
(c) His father
(d) Sasha

3. Why was Ramius often distrusted as a child?
(a) Son of the Party Leader of Lithuania
(b) His religion
(c) His quiet and reserved life style
(d) His wife's outspoken views on the government

4. What is seen in the pictures that is worrisome?
(a) Secret doors
(b) Secret engines
(c) Nuclear reactors
(d) Defection letters

5. Which of the following is the best definition for the term defect as used on the first day?
(a) Leave
(b) Imperfect
(c) Mediocre
(d) Unsound

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word best describes how Jack Ryan feels about this movement of the Russian subs in the North Atlantic on the fifth day?

2. Which of the following is the name of the Russian submarine captained by Ramius?

3. Which of the following was a contributing factor to the nuclear accident on the Russian sub?

4. Which of the following characters teaches Ramius about religion?

5. What does Ryan now think the Red October is planning to do?

(see the answer key)

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