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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 was the body count on the auto ferry?
2. What was the consistency of the debris covering the Pilottown?
3. What ship appeared to be the San Marino, but had a different name?
4. How many people jumped ship in the last docking?
5. How far away was the sound that was heard through the thick mist?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the government plan to keep the President's disappearance a secret?
2. How was Dover wrong in one respect, but correct in another?
3. How is Dirk Pitt described?
4. Why wasn't Mendoza with Pitt and his crew as they discovered the Pilottown?
5. What was interesting to note about the fog?
6. What did the President want to discuss with the people on board the Eagle?
7. Why can't the Russian government deduce how Min Koryo pulled off the abduction of the President?
8. What does the President say in regard to Dirk Pitt?
9. How did the young woman pull off the heist?
10. How does Pitt describe looking for a shipwreck?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Examine the plot of the novel. Could it have been improved and how or why not? What specific elements did you like or dislike, and why?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the heist in the beginning of the novel. How is this kind of heist impossible in today's day and age? What kinds of security measures are in place to prevent such things happening? Explain whether or not you think Arta would have gotten away with her crime, and how she might have gone about it.
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