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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 many levels does the Soviet installation have?

2. What do Steinmetz and his crew make from grapes?

3. In Chapter 16, what Soviet-manned lunar landing mission is planned to launch shortly?

4. What part of Gly's body does Pitt break during an interrogation session?

5. Who is the Chief of the FBI?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Dr. Calvin Rooney not happy about doing an autopsy on a victim of drug overdose?

2. Why does the Prosperteer make a good platform for spotting potential shipwreck sites from the air?

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

4. Why can't radioman Sparks call another ship?

5. What does Senator Dean Porter think about the "handshake in space"?

6. Why do Pitt and crew on the Prosperteer need to be back by 1400 hours?

7. How does Hagen get papers relating to the Inner Core from General Fisher?

8. Why does Hagen tell the President not to judge the men of the Inner Core too harshly?

9. Why would it have been disastrous for the Prosperteer to collide with the Sonesta Beach Hotel?

10. How are the deaths of the bodies on the blimp similar to a case Rooney had fifteen years ago?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Argue whether most of the conflicts that occur in the novel are internal or external conflicts. Use examples from "Cyclops" to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

Compare the leadership styles of Pitt and the President; also explain how their personalities affect their style of leadership.

Essay Topic 3

Is the inciting force of the novel the La Dorada or when Jessie, Pitt, Gunn, and Giordino are downed with the Prosperteer? Or is the inciting force something else? Create arguments explaining what the inciting force is of the novel. Use examples from the novel to support your arguments.

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