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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 long will it take to get information on Yazid's background?

2. Who and what ended up saving the Special Forces and the majority of the hostages?

3. What does Ammar plan to do about the Lady Flamborough?

4. What was Pitt's part of the mission?

5. What kind of metal were the scrolls stored in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information is missing on Yazid?

2. How did the Special Forces team mess up?

3. Where is the best location for the scrolls to be if they are to maintain their cohesion and readability? Where is the worst?

4. What was the easiest excuse to get the security guards into the room to be killed? How were they killed?

5. What kind of things were loaded onto the Lady Flamborough?

6. What was interesting about the cargo that was loaded onto the Lady Flamborough to the person that loaded it?

7. What sounds like a "grand plan" to the President and to Douglas Oates?

8. Who admires Giordino and why?

9. What does Pitt know the terrorists are aware of?

10. How did the Lady Flamborough escape notice?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the nature of barbarity and savages. When taken into context, although Native Americans lived primitively, the barbaric invaders were the europeans who came here and slaughtered villages. What defines a barbarian? A savage? Relate barbarity to developed nations. How do they interact?

Essay Topic 2

How would the technology of today have made the abduction of the Lady Flamborough impossible? How would it have aided the search for the lost treasures of the Alexandria Library?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Dirk Pitt and James Bond. How are the two characters similar? How are they different? How do you think the world would react to such a character in real life?

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