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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Summer escape Dirk's hotel room?
(a) By threatening to call the police.
(b) By knotting towels together and escaping out the window.
(c) By threatening Dirk with a gun.
(d) By knocking Dirk out and running.

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

3. What happens to the driver of the gray Dodge van that tries to run Dirk off the road?
(a) He is impaled on a telephone pole spike.
(b) He is killed in the crash that totals the van.
(c) He scrambles free of the falling van and runs from the scene.
(d) He falls over a sea cliff and is dashed against the rocks.

4. How does Dirk discover LT March after he realizes they are not alone on the submarine?
(a) Dirk cannot find him.
(b) Dead, he's been shot.
(c) Wounded, he's been stabbed.
(d) Hiding and wounded.

5. Why does ADM Hunter think the crew could have still escaped and survived?
(a) The distance from the sub escape hatches to the surface is easily reachable with or without SCUBA gear.
(b) There are plenty of life rafts.
(c) There are fishing trawler's nearby the crew could have reached.
(d) There is a chase ship three nautical miles away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says "As long as there are seas, ships, and men, there will be strange unsolved mysteries."?

2. Why does Dirk take Summer back to his hotel room after he knocks her out?

3. What does SN Farris tell Dirk "They" will do if he uses the radio?

4. When is strict radio silence imposed for a US Navy submarine?

5. Who does Dirk call first to report the incident with the gray van?

(see the answer key)

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