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

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

3. Who escapes from the Soviet communications center when Pitt and Quintana break in?

4. When the Soviet soldiers land on the moon, how do they feel?

5. What does the Ozero Zaysan weigh?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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 is the flight commander of the Gettysburg disturbed at the beginning of Chapter 54?

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

7. What does the President want Steinmetz to do before the Russians land on the moon?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Would you consider Pitt to be a hero? Create arguments explaining why Pitt is or is not a hero in the novel. Use examples from the book to support your position.

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