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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. How much older is Jessie than Pitt?

2. After the explosions in Havana, when does the first U.S. Air Force heavy cargo plane land?

3. One of the Soviets with all of his life-support equipment would weigh 360 earth pounds. What does he weigh in lunar weight?

4. What is the cargo of the Ozero Zaysan?

5. What size are the screens in Velikov's communication center on Cayo Santa Maria?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Raul Castro want Fidel Castro to do?

2. What does Pitt learn when he calls Weehawken Marine Products?

3. What is the Soviet's plan to make South and Central American solid extensions of the Soviet Union?

4. How does Clark die?

5. Why does Pitt decide that the ships are the bombs that the Russians intend to set off in Havana?

6. Why does Giordino throw the coffee cups that he was bringing to Sandecker and Jessie over his shoulder?

7. Why doesn't Pitt rendezvous with the rest of the assault team back at the SPUT?

8. How did Raymond LeBaron die?

9. What happened when Pitt and Quintana burst into the communications center?

10. How do Pitt and Jessie get into the Swiss Embassy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cussler uses suspense to keep the reader guessing throughout the novel "Cyclops." Explain how elements of suspense are used to advance the plot in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Throughout "Cyclops", Cussler weaves historical facts with the storyline. Explain how Cussler uses creative license to adapt history to advance the plot of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 18, Jessie LeBaron spills coffee on the radio transmitter of the Prosperteer. Using details from that chapter and the chapters that follow to support your position, argue whether Jessie did or did not spill the coffee on purpose.

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