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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the city of origin painted on the Martha Ann's hull?
(a) Sverodinsk.
(b) Seattle.
(c) Honolulu.
(d) Monterey.

2. Why does Dirk stop to talk to George Papaaloa?
(a) To find out what he knows about Summer.
(b) To shake off the person tailing him.
(c) To learn more about Pacific Islands.
(d) To find out what he knows about the Pacific Vortex.

3. How many distress signals have been received from ships that have gone down where the Starbuck is last reported?
(a) 112.
(b) None.
(c) Only two.
(d) Several thousand.

4. Why does Dirk's gun do him no good in the shootout with the gray Dodge van that tails him after he leaves the museum?
(a) It is stolen out of his car.
(b) He can't reach it.
(c) His aim is terrible.
(d) He never loaded the ammunition.

5. What happens to the driver of the gray Dodge van that tries to run Dirk off the road?
(a) He is impaled on a telephone pole spike.
(b) He scrambles free of the falling van and runs from the scene.
(c) He falls over a sea cliff and is dashed against the rocks.
(d) He is killed in the crash that totals the van.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does it take Dirk to recover himself after Summer attacks him and he knocks her out enough to get them both back to his hotel room?

2. What accounts for the ocean turning a greenish color as the Martha Ann approaches the shallower water of the seamount?

3. What or who is Andrei Vyborg?

4. In spite of all of the odd people Dirk has met since the beginning of the book, who is it that still haunts him as he gets underway on the Martha Ann?

5. Why does ADM Hunter think the crew could have still escaped and survived?

(see the answer key)

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