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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Mel Filippo lead her blinded agent from by the hand, according to the narrator in Chapter 33?
(a) Basmanny.
(b) Brasov.
(c) Chelobityevo.
(d) Malenkovskaya Ulitsa.

2. What term used in literature does the narrator use in Chapter 29 to mean something, especially a clue, that is or is intended to be misleading?
(a) Red herring.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Assonance.

3. For how many years does Nate say MARBLE has been spying for the U.S. in Chapter 24?
(a) 22 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 14 years.

4. What Russian word in Chapter 29 refers to a household goblin?
(a) Vorobey.
(b) Krolik.
(c) Domovoi.
(d) Sirniki.

5. Who is the only person that has the ability to give the go-ahead for the FBI to arrest the traitor in Chapter 20?
(a) Gable.
(b) Moreno.
(c) Benford.
(d) Forsyth.

6. What is the term "grubaya oshibka" translated to in Chapter 37 (414)?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Love.
(c) Blunder.
(d) Woman.

7. Where is the Electric Boat Shipyard located?
(a) Portland, Maine.
(b) Hampton, Maine.
(c) Rockville, Massachusetts.
(d) Groton, Connecticut.

8. What is the Neo-Baroque All-Russia Insurance Company building in Moscow that Benford has a photograph of on his office wall?
(a) The Bulochki.
(b) The Tokmach.
(c) The Lubyanka.
(d) The Vorobey.

9. What pop singer do neither Alice nor Nate know of that Benford mentions in Chapter 29?
(a) Pat Benatar.
(b) Chrissy Hynde.
(c) Michael Jackson.
(d) Paul McCartney.

10. What does the nickname acronym "FROG" refer to?
(a) Focus Regional Ops Group.
(b) French Regional Ops Group.
(c) Fraudulent Regional Ops Group.
(d) First Regional Ops Group.

11. For whom did Clio Bavisotto play Chopin while her husband cracked a safe upstairs?
(a) Tito.
(b) Bush.
(c) Putin.
(d) Clinton.

12. Who "recruited a Vietcong general in Hanoi under the noses of a twenty-person surveillance team," according to the narrator in Chapter 33 (369)?
(a) Tom Forsyth.
(b) Johnny Parment.
(c) John Paul Bullard.
(d) Dimitri Ustinov.

13. What state does Senator Stephanie Boucher represent?
(a) New York.
(b) Idaho.
(c) California.
(d) Iowa.

14. Who kills Zyuganov's thugs in Chapter 41?
(a) Vanya Egorov.
(b) Stephanie Boucher.
(c) Dominika.
(d) Nate.

15. What recipe concludes Chapter 38?
(a) "Gable's Cheese Fondue."
(b) "Pelmeni Dumplings."
(c) "Sophie's Vinaigrette."
(d) "Pasta alla Mollica (Anchovy Salsa)."

Short Answer Questions

1. What color cloud suffuses the air around Volontov's head when he requests a summary translation of Bullard's manual in Chapter 21?

2. When does Gable tell Dominika they would see her again as they set out for the swap on the bridge in Chapter 42?

3. What recipe concludes Chapter 24?

4. By what nickname is Socrates Burbank referred to among the Orions?

5. What is the word "obman" translated to in English in Chapter 37 (413)?

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