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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. What is the President's first name?
2. What was the President's sister's name who died and left three girls?
3. What does the blimp ground crew do while they wait for the blimp to return in Chapter 1?
4. Where did the President and his brother-in-law originally meet the man who interrupted the President's golf game?
5. How many cosmonaut deaths has the CIA recorded since the beginning of the Soviet space missions?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why would it have been disastrous for the Prosperteer to collide with the Sonesta Beach Hotel?
2. What is El Dorado and La Dorada?
3. Why does Jessie LeBaron say that the man found on the Prosperteer is not Raymond LeBaron?
4. What does Sandecker learn from Admiral Monfort?
5. How was the Prosperteer prevented from crashing into the hotel?
6. Describe the caravan that brought passengers and cargo to the Cyclops before the ship left Rio de Janeiro.
7. What does Rooney learn about the identities of the bodies found on the blimp?
8. Why did Captain Worley put Lieutenant David Forbes under ship's arrest?
9. What odd events had the Cyclops encountered since leaving home port?
10. Why do the Soviets decide to attack the moon base?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Argue whether Cussler does or does not have any dynamic characters in the novel. Use examples from the novel to support your position.
Essay Topic 2
Explain which characters in the novel serve as character foils and how they contrast with the other characters. Use examples from "Cyclops."
Essay Topic 3
Steinmetz says that the lunar colonists have a home-town advantage if it comes down to a fight with the Russians. Explain how this home-town advantage worked for and against the colonists. Use examples from "Cyclops."
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