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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 close can the assault team, that is being led by Kleist, get to the island of Cayo Santa Maria?

2. How did Jessie meet Raymond?

3. What mistake does Pitt make after killing two guards in a passageway to the communications center?

4. Why is the President awakened at one in the morning in Chapter 52?

5. Who is the military leader of the Soviet moon landing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do the Soviets believe that the Cubans are responsible for the destruction of the communications center on Cayo Santa Maria?

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

4. How did Raymond LeBaron die?

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

6. How do the colonists defeat the Russians?

7. What does Pitt learn when he calls Weehawken Marine Products?

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

9. What does Jessie think she sees while she is sitting at the makeshift hospital waiting to have a cup of coffee with Sandecker and Giordino?

10. What is the problem with the engines of the Amy Bigalow and the Ozero Zaysan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Use examples from the novel and argue that the genre of the novel is either an action-adventure or some other type of genre.

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

Using examples from the novel to support your position, argue whether Cussler does or does not makes events like the lunar colony plausible.

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