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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. Where is the Cardinal on the eighth day?
(a) In a jail
(b) In the hospital
(c) On board the Red October
(d) Flying back to the United States

2. Where do photographs show the major Soviet fleet at port?
(a) Eastern Russia
(b) The East Atlantic
(c) The Mediteranian
(d) Western Russia

3. Which of the following is the captain of the USS Dallas?
(a) Ramius
(b) Jones
(c) Ryan
(d) Mancuso

4. Which of the following is the path Ramius plans to take with the Red October?
(a) Mediteranean, Indian Ocean, East Coast of North America
(b) Arctic, Atlantic, East Coast of South America
(c) Mediteranean, Atlantic Ocean, Cuba
(d) Arctic, East Coast of North America, Cuba

5. Which of the following characters mistakenly assumes that the Americans cannot track the Red October?
(a) Davenport
(b) Ramius
(c) Ryan
(d) Mancuso

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is sent to England to inform the British government of the new mission?

2. What does the doctor check for radiation on the crew of the Red October?

3. Where does Ramius plan surface the submarine?

4. How long was Jack Ryan's nap?

5. Which of the following characters taught Ramius to love the sea?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jack Ryan do once Skip Tyler tells him what he thinks the purpose of the secret doors is?

2. Why does Ramius kill Putin?

3. Write about how the CIA offices differ from those meeting places used by the Soviets?

4. When the Dallas reports that they believe the unknown sound is an enemy submarine, what does the US Navy order them to do?

5. What does the President reveal to the Russian Ambassador on the ninth day?

6. Describe the relationship between Mancuso and Jones.

7. What do both the Konovalov and Bremerton show the reader on the second day?

8. What does Ramius's letter tell the Soviet Navy?

9. How did Ramius and his cohorts make the badges show high levels of radiation?

10. Why did Ramius want the doctor and crew to think there was a radiation leak?

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