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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 officials in the Cuban government are loyal to the United States?

2. How many people does Velikov want left behind to die in the explosions in Havana?

3. What is the name of the tugboat that Jack is using to move boats out of the Havana harbor?

4. What type of car is driven by the Cuban taxi driver that Pitt and Jessie ride with?

5. Pitt is working with a group to move the three ships in Havana. How many engineers can the group find to help?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pitt do after he crashes the taxi into the Russian car that was pursuing him?

2. How do Pitt and Jessie get into the Swiss Embassy?

3. Why doesn't Pitt rendezvous with the rest of the assault team back at the SPUT?

4. What happened when Pitt and Quintana burst into the communications center?

5. Why does the President accuse the Inner Core of murder?

6. What is the Soviet's plan to make South and Central American solid extensions of the Soviet Union?

7. How did Raymond LeBaron die?

8. Why is Major Gus Hollyman flying scared at the beginning of Chapter 56?

9. How do the colonists defeat the Russians?

10. Why does Giordino throw the coffee cups that he was bringing to Sandecker and Jessie over his shoulder?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Argue whether each storyline of the novel does or does not have a protagonist and an antagonist. Use examples from the novel to support your position.

Essay Topic 2

Argue whether Worley, Captain of the Cyclops, was a German sympathizer. Use examples from the novel to support your position.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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