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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 old is the guard at the fourth checkpoint that Jessie, Pitt, and the taxi driver encounter?

2. What is the cargo of the Amy Bigelow?

3. What time is it when Jack's tugboat returns from the Ozero Baykai to move the next ship?

4. Who finally kills Foss Gly?

5. Where is the passageway to the communications center?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What may be the purpose of the Russian installation?

4. What does Raul Castro want Fidel Castro to do?

5. How did Raymond LeBaron die?

6. What does Pitt do when Martin Brogan implies that he is not telling the truth about his experiences on the island?

7. What is a Dasher?

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

9. What happened to Jessie, Hagen and the Castros who were in Sloppy Joe's when the explosion occurred?

10. How does Clark die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pitt is fully capable of working solo, but is also willing to work as part of team. Show other examples of teamwork in the novel and compare how different groups of characters work together to accomplish a goal or solve a problem.

Essay Topic 2

Pitt was asked to undertake a mission to follow the flight path that Raymond LeBaron took in the Prosperteer before he disappeared. Explain how the author used foreshadowing to indicate that something was not right about the mission. Use examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 18, Jessie LeBaron spills coffee on the radio transmitter of the Prosperteer. Using details from that chapter and the chapters that follow to support your position, argue whether Jessie did or did not spill the coffee on purpose.

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