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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Dirk initially talking to in the bar at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel?
(a) Lieutenant Commander Paul Boland.
(b) Captain Orl Cinana.
(c) Lieutenant Summer Moran.
(d) Commander Burdette Denver.

3. What does the Marine guard at ADM Hunter's building on Pearl Harbor base ask Dirk for when he reports?
(a) His identification.
(b) His orders.
(c) Recommendations on a barber.
(d) His weapon.

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

5. What military decoration does Dirk specifically mention having NOT earned?
(a) A Meritorious Unit Commendation.
(b) A Meritorious Team Commendation.
(c) A Good Conduct Medal.
(d) An Achievement Medal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dirk carry Summer to the hotel?

2. Why is one reason the Navy doesn't consider the Starbuck's commanding officer's last statement of position to be credible?

3. Which seamen could have survived immediately after "the disaster" befell the Starbuck according to the logbook?

4. What is Dirk's psychological assessment of sailors in relation to the intention of the staging of the Lillie Marlene?

5. How does George Papaaloa describe the last researcher of the sunken island legend?

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