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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hagen find at Clyde Ward's address?
(a) An old warehouse.
(b) An old gas station.
(c) An old restaurant.
(d) An old farmhouse.

2. How much older is Pitt than the other racers?
(a) At least 15 years.
(b) About 10 years.
(c) At least 20 years.
(d) About 5 years.

3. How long is the broad sailing marathon race around Biscayne Bay to the Cape Florida lighthouse?
(a) 50 miles.
(b) 10 miles.
(c) 45 miles.
(d) 30 miles.

4. What room is the torture room?
(a) Room 9.
(b) Room 12.
(c) Room 4.
(d) Room 6.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the executive officer on the Cyclops?

2. What does the blimp ground crew do while they wait for the blimp to return in Chapter 1?

3. How many cosmonaut deaths has the CIA recorded since the beginning of the Soviet space missions?

4. When does Chapter 1 take place?

5. What is Pitt's job?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why didn't Ira Hagen go to Houston?

2. Describe the Unified Space Operations Center in Colorado Springs.

3. What does Rooney learn about the identities of the bodies found on the blimp?

4. How was the Prosperteer prevented from crashing into the hotel?

5. Why was Steinmetz chosen to lead the Jersey Colony?

6. Why did Captain Worley put Lieutenant David Forbes under ship's arrest?

7. What is the Jersey Colony?

8. What odd events had the Cyclops encountered since leaving home port?

9. Why should Jessie LeBaron have been careful not to offend Pitt?

10. Describe Lieutenant Commander George Worley.

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