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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. Which of the following best describes how the remainder of the trip to the port went?
(a) Minor incidents
(b) Complicated
(c) Major incidents
(d) Without incident

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

3. Which of the following idioms describes the feelings on both sides of the conflict on the tenth day?
(a) Over the top
(b) Blessing in disguise
(c) On edge
(d) A piece of cake

4. What has the Dallas succeeded in doing?
(a) Finding the Ethan Allen
(b) Decoding secret Soviet messages
(c) Destroying the Red October
(d) Locking on to the Red October

5. Who plans a political makeover of the military?
(a) NSA
(b) FBI
(c) CIA
(d) Politburo

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the three ships identify the Konovalov is still around?

2. How many missiles actually made connection with an American plane?

3. Where was the injured Russian soldier taken?

4. Weapons on both sides can best be described as what on the tenth day?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the Red October slams into the Konovalov?

2. What leads to the arrest of a congressional aide in Washington?

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

4. What happens in Moscow with the Politburo after the Red October situation?

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

6. What happens when the Russians fire missiles at the American Tom Cats?

7. What do the American Tom Cats do to make the Russian pilots think they are attacking?

8. Why do the officers on board the Kirov decide to stop all aggressive maneuvers?

9. In relation to the plan to help some of the Russian sailors defect, what positive step occurs related to Ryan occurs on the twelfth day?

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

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