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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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) Unknown.
(c) Six months.
(d) Five days.

3. How does Commander Dupree report the final resting place of the Starbuck?
(a) As unknown.
(b) Precise geo-coordinates, 500 miles from the last reported position.
(c) The same as the sub's last reported position.
(d) Precise geo-coordinates, which, if correct, would put the submarine on land.

4. What does Dirk first do with the manuscript he finds?
(a) He puts it back where he found it.
(b) He reads half of it and then puts it away when he realizes it is not for his eyes.
(c) He reads it in its entirety.
(d) He tosses it in his knapsack for later.

5. Why does Dirk take Summer back to his hotel room after he knocks her out?
(a) To kill her.
(b) To get information from her.
(c) To rape her.
(d) To kidnap her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Dirk Pitt's father?

2. What does Dirk find in the water when he swims out beyond the breakers at the beginning of Chapter 1?

3. How does the Starbuck hit the seafloor?

4. What color is Summer's hair?

5. How long is the hull of the Starbuck?

(see the answer key)

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