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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the Martha Ann appear old and rusted?
(a) She's over forty years old.
(b) Clever camouflage paint.
(c) The sailor's are more interested in maintaining the battleships than a salvage ship.
(d) She is salvaged from the scrap yard.

2. What is Dirk's official professional title?
(a) Special Projects Director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency.
(b) Naval Appropriations Director.
(c) Director of the National Maritime Domain Council.
(d) National Undersea Warfare, Chief Counsel.

3. Whose responsibility is it to plot the new search area for the Martha Ann after Dirk's interpretation of the evidence?
(a) LCDR Boland.
(b) ADM Hunter.
(c) CDR Denver.
(d) CDR Denver.

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

5. How does LCDR Boland mark the position of the submarine in case they are forced to abandon the site?
(a) An anchored liferaft.
(b) A floating flag buoy.
(c) An electronic waterproof signal transmitter.
(d) A dye marker.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many consonants does the Hawaiian language have?

3. What branch of the military does Dirk belong to?

4. How many ships have gone missing where the Starbuck is last reported?

5. What is dangerous about Dirk's swim out to the object in the water?

(see the answer key)

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