View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Dirk want to leave the Martha Ann on the helicopter to go and get the salvage team?
(a) Because he's afraid to fly in the dark.
(b) Because if something happens, there is no alternate escape route for the crew.
(c) He doesn't believe the sub can be salvaged.
(d) He doesn't want to miss the action on the Martha Ann.

2. By ADM Hunter's estimation, how deep is the water where the Starbuck sinks?
(a) 500 feet.
(b) 160 feet.
(c) 3,000 yards.
(d) 1 nautical mile.

3. Why is one reason the Navy doesn't consider the Starbuck's commanding officer's last statement of position to be credible?
(a) They believe the Russians planted the manuscript.
(b) They believe Dirk is perpetrating a hoax.
(c) They don't believe in the Pacific Vortex.
(d) They don't trust ADM Hunter.

4. Why does ADM Hunter think the crew could have still escaped and survived?
(a) There are plenty of life rafts.
(b) The distance from the sub escape hatches to the surface is easily reachable with or without SCUBA gear.
(c) There are fishing trawler's nearby the crew could have reached.
(d) There is a chase ship three nautical miles away.

5. Which seamen could have survived immediately after "the disaster" befell the Starbuck according to the logbook?
(a) None.
(b) CDR Dupree, the ship's doctor and LT Carter.
(c) LT Carter, SN Farris, and SN Metford.
(d) All of the ship's galley crew.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Boland's reaction to the news that March is dead?

2. How does the Starbuck hit the seafloor?

3. Who says: "I shot down Admiral Sandecker and his staff over the China Sea."?

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

5. What is the hull number of the Starbuck?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 325 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample