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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 is unique about this trip Jack takes in the Nautilus?

2. What does Kendall McMillan think they should do?

3. How much time is left before the solar storm hits when Jack leaves in the Nautilus?

4. What does it mean when the Director tells David he has 'black priority'?

5. How wide across is Pohnpei?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Miyuki, Karen, Jack and Mwahu manage to elude David and his soldiers?

2. What are Jack's priorities when he gets back to Deep Fathom?

3. What impact does Karen have on Jack and why?

4. What mistake does David makes that costs him his life?

5. What does Nicolas Ruzickov say to David when they talk?

6. What does Jack do to keep David busy until the explosives on deck go off?

7. What does Karen realize after Jack agrees to her plan to expose David with her help?

8. How does Karen help Jack after his melee with David depletes his power resources and leaves him dead in the water a short distance from Neptune?

9. What happens when the Perseus takes a sample of the crystal obelisk?

10. What does China do, what impact does it have on Nafe and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In times of severe crisis, people can be divided into two main categories. What are they? What behaviors can be attributed to each group? Compare and contrast the two groups, citing similarities if any exist and obvious differences. How do these two groups deal with the emotional trauma associated with disaster? Is the representation of their behavior in this book consistent with reality? Should such an event occur today, would the two groups be as obvious and as quick in their responses? As a reporter, how would you document this crisis?

Essay Topic 2

Why are David and Rolfe not restored to their lives as they were when the eclipse took place like almost everyone else is? What other strange occurrences appear to the rest of the world that only those aboard the Deep Fathom would be able to explain? What geographical changes are reversed? What political changes? What are the few things that do not change from the original time line and why?

Essay Topic 3

Karen takes a crystal from the Dragons of Okinawa. How might the outcome have changed had she not grabbed this piece on the way through the tunnel? What is so important about the crystal's properties? How would this have ultimately changed the entire sequence of events? Why is this such an integral part of this story? How does it connect her to Jack and the other crystal?

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