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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Dirk Pitt's father?
(a) A Senator from California, Chairman of the Naval Appropriations Committee.
(b) A Representative from Minnesota, on the House Armed Services Committee.
(c) Chief, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(d) White House Chief of Staff.

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

3. What is the nickname of the area where the Starbuck went missing?
(a) The Laurentian Abyss.
(b) The Pacific Vortex.
(c) The Bermuda Triangle.
(d) The South China Crevasse.

4. How long does the Navy extend searches for its missing vessels or crew?
(a) 72 hours.
(b) Indefinitely.
(c) he Navy does not conduct search and rescue, the Coast Guard does.
(d) 60 days.

5. 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 is an abbreviation for "forecastle," or the forward deck of a ship.
(d) It's a space in the forward hull where extra anchor chain is kept.

6. How does Dirk suggest the captain's log from the Starbuck is forged?
(a) Using the actual captain's log, his correspondence and diary.
(b) Using a special tracing machine.
(c) By raiding his home for handwriting exemplars.
(d) By forcing the captain to write it using the threat of torture.

7. What strikes Dirk as odd about the galley and lounge area of the Starbuck on his initial recon mission with LT March?
(a) There is no paper and nothing perishable.
(b) The tv is still working.
(c) There are stacks of dirty dishes, but no soap.
(d) There is no corrosion on anything.

8. Who does Dirk call first to report the incident with the gray van?
(a) ADM Hunter.
(b) The Honolulu Police.
(c) ADM Sandecker.
(d) Adrian Hunter.

9. Why is diving on a wrecked submarine different from a wrecked ship for Dirk?
(a) Because he's diving with only one partner this time.
(b) Because the submarine doesn't appear to have been wrecked at all.
(c) Because he feels like he knows this crew from reading the manuscript.
(d) Because ships are supposed to be on the surface of the water, whereas the sub is in its natural environment.

10. According to CDR Dupree's log, which compartment in the sub is the only compartment breached?
(a) The forward torpedo room.
(b) The captain's quarters.
(c) The reactor room.
(d) The aft missile cabin.

11. What does the manuscript turn out to be?
(a) 26 pages from the submarine Starbuck's log.
(b) Mostly undreadable.
(c) Half of an Admiral's autobiography.
(d) An unauthorized history of naval submarines.

12. What kind of car does Dirk drive?
(a) A Volkswagen beetle.
(b) An AC Cobra.
(c) An antique Chevy pickup.
(d) A Ford Mustang.

13. What is Dirk's psychological assessment of sailors in relation to the intention of the staging of the Lillie Marlene?
(a) That they are committed to a life spent at sea no matter what.
(b) That their innermost fears are connected to drowning or dying at sea.
(c) That they are mostly scientific in their outlook and it would take an extraordinary level of danger to convince them to stay away from an area of ocean.
(d) That most sailors are as mercenary as any other crew.

14. Where is Dirk at the opening of the book?
(a) Canea Bay, Phillippines.
(b) At Kaena Cove, Japan.
(c) On a volcano called Mount Kaena, HI.
(d) On a beach called Kaena Point, HI.

15. What is the hull number of the Starbuck?
(a) 899.
(b) 999.
(c) 989.
(d) 698.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does ADM Hunter think CDR Dupree ordered his captain's log delivered to him?

2. Why doesn't Dirk want to leave the Martha Ann on the helicopter to go and get the salvage team?

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

4. What color are Dirk's eyes?

5. Who says: "I shot down Admiral Sandecker and his staff over the China Sea."?

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