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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the submarine filled with explosives for its last mission?
(a) Ethan Allen
(b) Red October
(c) Kennedy
(d) Porgy

2. What does Jack Ryan take time to read while he is on board the HMS Invincible?
(a) Biography of Ramius
(b) Detailed plans of the Red October
(c) Psychological report of defectors
(d) Tyler's plan for the defection

3. Where is the secret port?
(a) Virginia
(b) Washington
(c) New York
(d) Florida

4. The assembling of the Air Force is meant to do what to the Russians?
(a) Engage them
(b) Scare them
(c) Intimidate them
(d) Surprise them

5. What additional vessel meets at the designated meeting location?
(a) Ethan Allen
(b) Porgy
(c) Dallas
(d) Kirov

6. What two ships accompany the Red October to its secret destination?
(a) Kennedy and Dallas
(b) Porgy and Dallas
(c) Konovalov and Dallas
(d) Kennedy and Porgy

7. Which of the following equipment can be used to track vessels and planes in the ocean?
(a) Neither of the above answers
(b) Both of the above answers
(c) Sonar
(d) Radar

8. What happens to most of the Russian fleet on the sixteenth day?
(a) Stay where they are
(b) Head back to Russia
(c) Surrounded by the American fleet
(d) Head to the East Coast of North America

9. Who assembles to fight the Russian Army?
(a) Air Force Reserve
(b) US Navy
(c) US Navy Reserve
(d) US Battleships

10. Why does the Red October surface on the thirteenth day?
(a) To hide from other American ships
(b) To move the crew off of the ship
(c) To get a better look around
(d) To make contact with other Russian ships

11. Most of the incidents on the tenth day can be referred to as which of the following?
(a) Massive
(b) Minor
(c) Mistakes
(d) Major

12. Where was Filitov?
(a) Visiting the injured sailor
(b) America
(c) Aboard a sub
(d) Hospital

13. How are the Russians convinced that the Red October is destroyed?
(a) Russian military official goes to see wreckage of Ethan Allen
(b) Photos are sent to Moscow
(c) The government releases a news statement
(d) Sailors that were rescued attest to the destruction of the ship

14. Which word best describes how the Russian sailors react to what they see in the United States?
(a) Unaffected
(b) Ambivalent
(c) Amazed
(d) Disgusted

15. Who finds a minor radiation leak on the Red October?
(a) No one
(b) Cook
(c) Ramius
(d) Chief engineer

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Williams and Ramius?

2. What message does the Invincible send to the Red October?

3. Who plans a political makeover of the military?

4. Which of the follow does the Dallas not send to the Red October?

5. Who was assigned to watch the injured Russian sailor's recovery?

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