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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the Chief Director of the Naval Underwater and Marine Agency?
(a) Dirk Pitt.
(b) Admiral James Sandecker.
(c) Captain Orl Cinana.
(d) Admiral Leigh Hunter.

2. What is the first year of record for missing ships in the Pacific Vortex?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1968.

3. Why is the Starbuck's final position report physically impossible?
(a) The submarine is not fast enough to have covered the mileage between her two last position reports.
(b) The water is too shallow for her location.
(c) The geo-coordinates put her position on land.
(d) There is no trace of the submarine at that position.

4. Who is the author of the manuscript, excerpts of which are transcribed in Chapter 2?
(a) ADM Hunter.
(b) Dirk Pratt.
(c) SN Farris.
(d) CDR Dupree.

5. What is the first visible evidence of the real nature of "Them?"
(a) The man Dirk kills appears to have evolved gills.
(b) Dirk sees a shadow outline of one which appears to have a tail and webbed feet.
(c) The guard that Dirk kills turns out to be a normal human man.
(d) Dirk finds evidence of human habitation in the crew's quarters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the weather as the Martha Ann gets underway?

2. When is strict radio silence imposed for a US Navy submarine?

3. Who says "As long as there are seas, ships, and men, there will be strange unsolved mysteries."?

4. Why does ADM Hunter think the crew could have still escaped and survived?

5. Whose responsibility is it to plot the new search area for the Martha Ann after Dirk's interpretation of the evidence?

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