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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 does Pitt get out of the Swiss Embassy to meet with the CIA agents?

2. Where is the first place that Pitt is taken after his rescue by submarine?

3. How old was Sandecker when he made flag rank?

4. Where is a piece of the Ozero Zaysan's forward mast found?

5. What news does Gly bring Gunn and Giordino at the end of Chapter 50?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happened when the Ozero Baykai blew up.

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

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

4. How did Raymond LeBaron die?

5. 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?

6. In Chapter 72, where is Velikov taken when his limousine is stopped by a roadblock?

7. What is a Dasher?

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

9. Why does Pitt decide that the ships are the bombs that the Russians intend to set off in Havana?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Throughout "Cyclops", Cussler weaves historical facts with the storyline. Explain how Cussler uses creative license to adapt history to advance the plot of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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