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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are considered the best in the freshmen houses?
(a) Gem, Ana, Ester, and Nelinha.
(b) Ana, Gem, Tia, and Franklin.
(c) Ana, Lee-Ann, Virtgil, Halimah, and Jack.
(d) Gem, Dru, Cooper, Kiya, and Eloise.

2. Where is the HP campus located?
(a) California.
(b) Hawaii.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Denmark.

3. What hand gestures does Ana use to communicate with the Dolphins?
(a) Signs used with dolphins.
(b) American Sign Language.
(c) Gestures she made up.
(d) Signs used by the military.

4. What is the curriculum at both Harding-Pencroft and Land Institute?
(a) Marine sciences and engineering.
(b) Environmental sciences and engineering.
(c) Marine sciences and naval warfare.
(d) Marine biology and zoology.

5. Why are Gem and Nelinha uncomfortable around each other?
(a) They are both jealous of each other.
(b) They have completely opposite personalities.
(c) Gem had embarrassed Nelinha when he asked her if she was the full scholarship kid.
(d) Gem had asked Nelinha out, and she turned him down.

6. What does the crew of the Varuna do with the LI attackers?
(a) They leave them on the deck of the ship for the other crew members to mock.
(b) They kill them immediately.
(c) They are zip-tied and left on a pontoon.
(d) They arrest them and keep them in the ship's hold.

7. Who planned the attack on HP?
(a) Dr. Hewitt.
(b) The faculty of LI.
(c) The LI seniors.
(d) The U.S. Navy.

8. Which house finishes up adding Dr. Hewitt’s alt-tech modifications to the ship?
(a) The Cephalopods.
(b) The Dolphins.
(c) The Sharks.
(d) The Orcas.

9. What does Ana notice as she swims to the surface after feeding the dolphin?
(a) Her brother is missing.
(b) There are no birds in the sky.
(c) The security grid’s blue lights flash off and back on.
(d) The current is stronger than usual.

10. As the students come to grips with the loss of their school and all its inhabitants, what is Ana doing?
(a) Dissociating.
(b) Crying.
(c) Praying.
(d) Meditating.

11. What is the name of the bottlenose dolphin Ana and her brother feed?
(a) Pilates.
(b) Freud.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

12. What does Hewitt tell Ana her parents had discovered?
(a) A new algorithm.
(b) A new species of dolphin.
(c) The Nautilus.
(d) An underground lab.

13. Why does Ester wonder if she and Ana could have saved HP?
(a) If Ester had paid more attention to events going on around campus the past few weeks.
(b) If Ester had heard about Ana's morning warnings the day of the attack.
(c) If Ester had confronted Dr. Hewitt.
(d) If Ester had shared some of the information she had been given by the board of trustees.

14. What course does Dr. Hewett teach?
(a) Theoretical Weaponry.
(b) Marine Science and Technology.
(c) Wizardry and the Dark Arts.
(d) Theoretical Marine Science.

15. Who are important names from Jules Verne’s novels, besides Captain Nemo?
(a) Rick Riordan, Prince Dakkar, Pierre Trudeau, Giovanni Bonaventure.
(b) Ana Dakkar, Gemini Twain, Nelinha, Ester Harding.
(c) Sara Land, Peter Aronnax, Ester Harding, and Bonnie Pencroft.
(d) Ned Land, Pierre Aronnax, Cyrus Harding, and Bonaventure Pencroft.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what is the DNA reader compared?

2. In what language does Ana speak to the other Dolphins?

3. What is unusual about the dolphin’s behavior?

4. Where had Nelinha grown up an orphan?

5. What is Dr. Hewitt’s response when the students ask to have their families notified that they are alive?

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