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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what time must the Prosperteer return?
(a) 1300 hours.
(b) 1200 hours.
(c) 1400 hours.
(d) 1600 hours.

2. What does Yaeger call the voice activated computer at NUMA?
(a) Hal.
(b) Faith.
(c) Hannah.
(d) Hope.

3. Where does Eriksen believe that Hagen will go next on his search for the Inner Core?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Oregon.
(c) Texas.
(d) New Mexico.

4. What is in the bundle that the three men doggedly haul with them from the Prosperteer?
(a) A life raft.
(b) An inflatable boat.
(c) Life jackets.
(d) Extra air tanks.

5. How old is the Cyclops?
(a) 15 years old.
(b) 4 years old.
(c) 20 years old.
(d) 8 years old.

6. At the beginning of the Prologue, how long before the Cyclops becomes a mass tomb?
(a) 3 hours.
(b) 48 minutes.
(c) 5 minutes.
(d) 2 days.

7. Who is the President's brother-in-law?
(a) David Harper.
(b) Justin Morehouse.
(c) Ralph Sigler.
(d) Ira Hagan.

8. Who is the first person that Sandecker calls after communication is lost with the Prosperteer?
(a) The Vice President.
(b) The President.
(c) Admiral Monfort.
(d) Captain Arnold.

9. When Hagan is at the Pattenden Laboratory, who does he discover may be another Inner Core member?
(a) Leonard Hudson.
(b) Gunnar Eriksen.
(c) Martin Brogan.
(d) Henry Kaltenbach.

10. What is the date of the Washington Post that is on Velikov's desk in his study?
(a) Three days ago.
(b) Five days ago.
(c) Two days ago.
(d) Today's date.

11. Where does Pitt hide the motor he finds when he escapes from his cell the first time?
(a) Under some brush.
(b) In an old shack.
(c) Under an old bathtub.
(d) Under an old rotting boat.

12. Where did Dr. Calvin Rooney attend medical school?
(a) University of Pennsylvania.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Johns Hopkins.

13. Approximately how long has the black woman in the Dade County autopsy room been dead?
(a) About 24 hours.
(b) Less than 7 hours.
(c) Less than 36 hours.
(d) About 2 hours.

14. How old was Steinmetz when he set foot on the moon?
(a) 59.
(b) 53.
(c) 45.
(d) 37.

15. Who is going to pilot the Prosperteer?
(a) Gunn.
(b) Jessie LeBaron.
(c) Giordino.
(d) Pitt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Eli Steinmetz get his undergraduate degree?

2. How did the black woman being autopsied by the Dade County coroner die?

3. When was the Cyclops built?

4. When was the blimp taken out of service with the Navy?

5. What had Pitt done to Gly when they worked on the same project?

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