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

2. How do the officers still believe the radiation leak occurred?
(a) Mechanical failure
(b) Sabotage
(c) Accident
(d) They do not know

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

4. Which of the following is a nickname for the American planes during this time frame?
(a) Wild Cats
(b) Barons
(c) Mavericks
(d) Tom Cats

5. Why does the Dallas surface?
(a) To communicate
(b) To avoid being tracked by a Soviet sub
(c) To track the Red October
(d) To get new orders

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of he following characters impresses the Soviets on the Red October?

2. Why does the Red October surface on the thirteenth day?

3. The assembling of the Air Force is meant to do what to the Russians?

4. In what month does this story take place?

5. Which of the following terms best describes the condition of the injured Russian soldier?

Short Essay Questions

1. What argument does the President make when the Russian Ambassador accuses the Americans of trying to kidnap the crew of the Red October?

2. What about the injured Russian, who is identified simply as a cook is suspenseful?

3. What does the radiation scare on the Red October allow the officers to do?

4. What is revealed about the inner-workings of Soviet government on the twelfth day?

5. Why do the Americans want to find the Red October?

6. Why is the Konovalov ordered to stay behind?

7. What does the incident of the KGB agent almost lighting a cigarette near the oxygen tanks show to the reader?

8. Describe how the escort went after the Konovalov was destroyed.

9. What happens to the crew of the Red October after they are in Washington?

10. What happens when the chief engineer finds a minor radiation leak?

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