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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 had happened to the crew of the Amie Marie?

2. How have drugs proven dangerous when doing controlled brainwashing?

3. What did she think was happening at first?

4. What was the body count on the auto ferry?

5. How many years had Cutty Sark been in the business?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was strange and different regarding the Catawba's boarding of the Amie Marie?

2. Describe Madame Bougainville.

3. How does the government plan to keep the President's disappearance a secret?

4. How does the President have domestic enemies?

5. Why were the microphones near the agents' wrists?

6. What is Lee Tong's connection to Madame Bougainville?

7. How did the young woman pull off the heist?

8. What does the President say in regard to Dirk Pitt?

9. Why did Lugovoy tremble inwardly?

10. Why can't the Russian government deduce how Min Koryo pulled off the abduction of the President?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Loren Smith and Julie Mendoza. What do you think attracted Pitt to Julie? How do you think Loren would have reacted to Pitt's affair with Julie? Due to this influence, how did it become necessary to kill her off, yet create enough influence in Dirk's life to keep him chasing an answer?

Essay Topic 2

Explain Pitt's loss of his Talbot-Lago from a psychological level. What does his answer to the cocktail waitress describe about his personality? How does he view his vehicles?

Essay Topic 3

Compare yourself to any character in this novel. Who do you mostly resemble physically? Psychologically? If you don't closely resemble someone in these two aspects, who do you most identify with and why? Do you think that these characters are designed to be easily identified with? Why or why not?

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