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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. When had Pitt and Foss Gly worked, not together, but on the same project?

2. What color lab coat does Dr. Calvin Rooney wear?

3. After Gly is injured during an interrogation session with Pitt, what does he throw at Pitt?

4. What is Pitt's job?

5. Where will the President meet with the members of the Inner Core when he rounds them all up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a Soviet geophysicist find when examining photographs taken by the Selenos 4?

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

3. Why do the Soviets decide to attack the moon base?

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

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

6. Describe the Prosperteer.

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

8. Why did Pitt place a hair across his door when he escaped from his cell the first time?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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."

Essay Topic 2

Cussler uses suspense to keep the reader guessing throughout the novel "Cyclops." Explain how elements of suspense are used to advance the plot in the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Explain which characters in the novel serve as character foils and how they contrast with the other characters. Use examples from "Cyclops."

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