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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the plan for the plane the rescue team flies out to the Pacific Vortex?
(a) Al will drop the team and then fly in circles around the site until the pick-up signal is given.
(b) The team will skydive from it into the drop zone and let the plane crash wherever it lands.
(c) The plane is a red-herring to make Delphi think they arrived that way. The real underwater rescue team is arriving by submarine.
(d) Ditch it in the water such that the crew manages to survive and the plane still floats.

2. Why does Dirk stop to talk to George Papaaloa?
(a) To find out what he knows about Summer.
(b) To learn more about Pacific Islands.
(c) To shake off the person tailing him.
(d) To find out what he knows about the Pacific Vortex.

3. What about the Starbuck's engine room strikes Dirk and LT March as suspicious?
(a) The engines are still running.
(b) It is clean and well maintained.
(c) It is only partially flooded.
(d) There is no maintenance log.

4. What is the rescue schedule for the Starbuck when Dirk, Al and the Navy team return to the Pacifc Vortex?
(a) Two hours and 45 minutes.
(b) 90 minutes.
(c) 10 hours.
(d) Four and a half hours.

5. What is a "fo'c's'le"?
(a) It's a variant spelling of "foxhole," and means the crew's lounging area.
(b) It is an abbreviation for "forecastle," or the forward deck of a ship.
(c) It's a space in the forward hull where extra anchor chain is kept.
(d) It's a nautical term for any area of the ship where the enlisted crew go to get away from the officers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dirk start carrying before when he realizes the danger he has put himself in before reporting to Admiral Hunter?

2. What does George Papaaloa ask Dirk about progress on that that Dirk had recently been diving to find?

3. Why is Dirk beginning to distrust his situational awareness after his visit to the museum and George Papaaloa?

4. What kind of car does Dirk drive?

5. What are the two most important things about the sub's condition that Dirk reports to Boland?

(see the answer key)

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