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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. After Heidi receives a phone call at the hotel, where does Shaw go?

2. To whom does the author compare Premier Jules Guerrier's appearance?

3. What airfield does Gly fly from after killing Danielle and Villon?

4. What does Pitt use to examine the aerial photographs?

5. Who does Lieutenant Commander Raymond Weeks look like?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Eric Caldweiler figure out how to get into the quarry?

2. What message does Shaw want Heidi to pass on to Alan Mercier?

3. What does Dirk instruct the divers to do when he notices an extra man working on the wreck?

4. Why does the President's Chief of Staff meet Dirk at a car auction?

5. What is odd about the train wreck of the Manhattan Limited?

6. Why does the President need the copy of the treaty?

7. What Sarveux comes home from the hospital, what does he tell Villon?

8. How does Gly escape death when the hydroplane rams into a Japanese cargo ship?

9. Describe how the Empress of Ireland sank.

10. How was the research boat, the De Soto, damaged?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how the letter that Heidi found was the inciting force in the novel. Show how it affected other events in the book and how it created some events that happened in the book.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's use of suspense in the novel and explain how suspense advances the plot.

Essay Topic 3

Argue whether the author does or does not use details that stereotype his characters. Use examples from the novel.

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