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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the man piloting the submersible that rescues the trapped oceanographic team?
(a) Al Giordino.
(b) Clive Cussler.
(c) Dirk Pitt.
(d) Raul Salazar.

2. After leaving the meeting room at Headquarters, who does Pitt call and invite to a meeting?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His cousin.
(c) His brother.
(d) His father.

3. At the time of the explosion, how many hours of oxygen do the people trapped on Old Gert have left?
(a) Six hours.
(b) Ten hours.
(c) Twelve hours.
(d) Eighteen hours.

4. Who helped design the British survey vessel's submersible?
(a) Craig Plunkett.
(b) Jimmy Knox.
(c) Stacy Fox.
(d) Oscar Steen.

5. What is the name of the plot involving the automobile bomb shipments?
(a) The Hanamura Project.
(b) The Kaiten Project.
(c) The Katamori Project.
(d) The Doomsday Project.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money is the searched-for treasure thought to be worth?

2. Who shoots the car aboard the Divine Star?

3. How many automobiles are aboard the drifting ship?

4. How many ships like the Divine Star are already docked at United States' ports?

5. What does Pitt find after running to the vehicle that he chased from the racetrack after Loren was abducted?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the crew of the ship that happens upon the drifting vessel send a boarding party over to the apparently abandoned ship?

2. Upon hearing that the Senator has disappeared, what conclusion do Pitt, Sandecker, and Giordino reach?

3. What happens because of the nuclear explosion that forces the immediate release of the oceanographic team?

4. Describe what the cruise ship looks like after the explosion occurs.

5. When the excavators finally reach the tunnel and locate where they expected to find the treasure, what do they find?

6. What is the mission of the British survey vessel in the Western Pacific?

7. As Chapter 7 opens, the Old Gert's crew is barely alive. Why is carbon dioxide rapidly building up?

8. What is the purpose of the congressional subcommittee that Loren Smith serves on?

9. What is the Yasukuni shrine?

10. After the first two transport subs have left Old Gert, what do the remaining people aboard Old Gert do?

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