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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. Who is concealed inside one of the Murmoto cars that Furukawa is picking up?

2. Who creates a three-dimensional model of the island from the plans stolen by Hanamura?

3. What does Weatherhill notice inside each of the bomb cars while he is in the garage area?

4. Whom does Raymond Jordan suspect of being a sleeper agent?

5. How do Fox, Weatherhill, and Mancuso gain access to Ajima Island?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tsuboi decide to manually detonate at least one of the nuclear bomb cars?

2. When the kamikaze detonates the nuclear bomb on U.S. soil, what does the President want to do?

3. What does the person concealed in the Murmoto car think as the nuclear device is examined?

4. Why is Kamatori pleased that Pitt and Giordino have been given to Kamatori as a gift from Suma?

5. After the MAIT members are captured on Suma's island, what does Suma share with his captives as they all dine together?

6. Why does Pitt refuse to let Giordino accompany him into Big Ben and to the ocean floor?

7. Why is Pitt not surprised when Jordan tries to sneak into his home and surprise Pitt?

8. After Dirk Pitt's obituary appears in the newspaper, Giordino and Sandecker are at Pitt's hangar. Why are the two men saddened?

9. Even though the Kaiten Project cannot be detonated in simultaneous fashion until the codes are reprogrammed, why is it still dangerous?

10. What role is planned for Pitt and Giordino as the MAIT team members get ready to destroy Suma's control center?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Craig Plunkett and Raul Salazar.

a) How are the two characters similar? How are they different?

b) What is revealed about each character as they are trapped aboard Old Gert awaiting either death or rescue?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the characteristics, roles, loyalties, and agendas of the following people in the story: Hideki Suma, Raymond Jordan, Dirk Pitt, Stacy Fox, and Ichiro Tsuboi.

Essay Topic 3

Identify the three main desires of Hideki Suma - the reasons behind his grand scheme. For each demand, tell Suma's reasoning behind the demand, what Suma hoped to accomplish through the demand, and the likelihood of the demand actually being met by the United States.

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