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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. Do the Russians intend to pay Min Koryo?

2. What was Pitt's team looking for?

3. What is the name of the vessel boarded in the prelude?

4. Who was the only person dressed in a suit?

5. How many men had surrounded the young woman?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the President have domestic enemies?

2. Describe the President.

3. Why wasn't Mendoza with Pitt and his crew as they discovered the Pilottown?

4. What did the President want to discuss with the people on board the Eagle?

5. Describe Madame Bougainville.

6. What was interesting to note about the fog?

7. What was strange about the condition of the Pilottown?

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

9. How is Dirk Pitt described?

10. What did the woman's thrill come from after she had looked at the money again?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the influence of Al Giordino and Admiral Sandecker. How do they come through for Dirk? How has Dirk come through for them? Describe their relationship with Dirk, and how it affects the development of the plot.

Essay Topic 2

Describe how the public would react to a missing Head of State. How is the public's reaction to the President's disappearance realistic? How is it fictional?

Essay Topic 3

Explain why Alan Moran didn't tell the truth about where he and Larimer had been, and how they got there? How might have the public reacted to this statement? Could it have affected his place in office? How or why not?

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