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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pitt do after he wakes?
(a) Gets cleaned up in fresh clothes.
(b) Calls Hildbaum in San Diego.
(c) Calls Sandecker in Washington.
(d) Calls Blackburn in New York.

2. What happens to Hunnewell as a result of the crash?
(a) He dies.
(b) He is paralyzed.
(c) He loses his leg.
(d) He has a concussion.

3. Where do Pitt and Hunnewell end up after the helicopter crashes?
(a) Washed up on the beach.
(b) Hanging onto the floating helicopter.
(c) On a Russian trawler.
(d) In a hospital in Reykjavik.

4. How is Pitt dressed when he goes to borrow one of Rondheim's boats?
(a) As a naval officer.
(b) As a fisherman.
(c) As a gay artist.
(d) As a surfer.

5. What do Pitt and Sandecker discover once on the boat they chose?
(a) It has a powerful engine and electronics.
(b) It is more suited to a lake.
(c) It doesn't have a ship to shore radio.
(d) It has a small hole in the hull.

6. Who watches the Coast Guard ship fly away?
(a) Dirk Pitt.
(b) Two unidentified men.
(c) Commander Koski.
(d) Dr. Bill Hunnewell.

7. What does the jet do when it gets close to Pitt and Hunnewell?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Wiggles its wings.
(c) Fires upon them.
(d) Fly by very close.

8. What does Koski decide to do after talking with Pitt and Hunnewell?
(a) Let them know in a couple of hours his decision.
(b) Change course.
(c) Put them in the brig.
(d) Radio Washington.

9. What do Pitt and Kirsti do at first at the table in the restaurant?
(a) Ignore each other.
(b) Exchange sarcasm.
(c) Flirt.
(d) Talk about the probe.

10. What is Pitt invited to do in Chapter Seven?
(a) Dine with Kirsti.
(b) Speak to a group of Icelandic seamen.
(c) Play golf with Sandecker.
(d) Fly to Paris with Roberts.

11. What is the Coast Guard plane doing at the beginning of this novel?
(a) Tracking drug runners.
(b) It's on standard iceberg patrol.
(c) Trying to find the north pole.
(d) Looking for survivors of a ship wreck.

12. What does the plane do when the crew sees something unusual in one of the icebergs?
(a) Flies lower.
(b) Radio to Dirk Pitt.
(c) Drop a bomb.
(d) Returns to its ship.

13. Why do Pitt and Hunnewell depart in the helicopter?
(a) To check out the helicopter's engines.
(b) To find the Chinese submarine.
(c) To find the burned out ship.
(d) To recon ahead.

14. What does Pitt decide to do after he meets Rondheim?
(a) Picks a fight with him.
(b) Pretends he is married.
(c) Pretends he's a homosexual.
(d) Takes Kirsti away from him.

15. Why does Pitt meet with an Admiral after he wakes?
(a) To get his next assignment.
(b) To brief him.
(c) To tell him he quits.
(d) To complain about crashing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pitt surface after finally finding the jet?

2. Who was in the boat that left the submarine?

3. Why is Pitt on this mission?

4. What did Hunnewell say Pitt didn't tell Koski about the discovery Fyrie made?

5. What is one of the mysteries Pitt wants to solve?

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