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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What branch of the military does Dirk belong to?
(a) US Coast Guard.
(b) US Air Force.
(c) US Army.
(d) US Navy.

2. Why does ADM Hunter think CDR Dupree ordered his captain's log delivered to him?
(a) CDR Dupree admired ADM Hunter.
(b) CDR Dupree is hallucinating and imagined that ADM Hunter is nearby.
(c) CDR Dupree does no such thing, those directions are added later.
(d) ADM Hunter does not know.

3. What color is Summer's hair?
(a) Dark brown.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Dirty blonde.

4. What is the time lapse between the disaster that befell the ship and the beginning of the narrative that ADM Hunter relates?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Six months.
(c) Unknown.
(d) Five days.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Starbuck hit the seafloor?

2. Who is Dirk Pitt's father?

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

4. Who is the author of the manuscript, excerpts of which are transcribed in Chapter 2?

5. How long is the hull of the Starbuck?

(see the answer key)

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