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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the officers of the suggest is causing the reactor scare?

2. Which of the following characters accompanies Ryan to the USS Kennedy?

3. What do Jones and Mancuso determine the unknown sound must be?

4. Which of the following tracks all naval operations?

5. On which of the following vessels was there a significant nuclear accident which led to its destruction?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ramius do in order to get the things he wants?

2. Why doesn't the Bremerton do much to track the Red October?

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

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

5. What are the US government officials attempting to avoid?

6. What is the one major issue with the photographs Jack Ryan brings back to his CIA meeting?

7. Which two characters entered the military even though they had other life plans?

8. What is Tyler thinking of after his discussion with Greer?

9. Of what importance is it that Ramius was raised by his grandmother in Lithuania?

10. What leads to the death of Ramius's wife?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Have the students write an essay describing how the Russians must have felt the first time they were in the United States. Include many descriptors in your essay.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing what life was like for the lower classes during the Cold War in the USSR. Use examples from the text and other personal knowledge to support your description.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay describing how the Soviet Party, which Ramius hated, was also responsible for making him into the man that he is and how this must be a troubling fact to the man. Remember to use specific examples from the text to support your essay.

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