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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about the Starbuck's engine room strikes Dirk and LT March as suspicious?
(a) It is clean and well maintained.
(b) There is no maintenance log.
(c) It is only partially flooded.
(d) The engines are still running.

2. What color are Dirk's eyes?
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) Gray.
(d) Brown.

3. What is the Martha Ann's depth at the start of their search pattern?
(a) 16,234 feet.
(b) 5,670 feet.
(c) 478 feet.
(d) 14 fathoms.

4. Who is Adrian Hunter?
(a) Dirk's girlfriend.
(b) A spy trying to kill Admiral Hunter.
(c) Admiral Hunter's daughter.
(d) A government operative trying to kill Dirk.

5. What is Dirk doing at the opening of the book?
(a) Sunbathing.
(b) Visiting with friends.
(c) Riding his bike.
(d) Swimming.

6. What is a "fo'c's'le"?
(a) It's a space in the forward hull where extra anchor chain is kept.
(b) It's a nautical term for any area of the ship where the enlisted crew go to get away from the officers.
(c) It's a variant spelling of "foxhole," and means the crew's lounging area.
(d) It is an abbreviation for "forecastle," or the forward deck of a ship.

7. Who says: "I shot down Admiral Sandecker and his staff over the China Sea."?
(a) CDR Denver.
(b) ADM Hunter.
(c) LCDR Boland.
(d) Dirk Pitt.

8. How does Dirk know that Summer is lying about her reasons for wanting information on Adrian Hunter?
(a) He finds papers on her that tell a different story.
(b) Adrian told him a different story.
(c) He knows that Adrian does not have access to classified information.
(d) He doesn't, but he suspects that she is.

9. Why does Dirk speculate that the Navy has equipped the Martha Ann with a crew of midgets?
(a) Because the doorways are abnormally low on the Martha Ann.
(b) Because the escape helo only carries 15, too few for a normal crew of a vessel like the Martha Ann.
(c) Because he's trying to make a joke with the exasperatingly solemn Boland.
(d) Because so far the only crew members he's seen have all been under 5' 5".

10. 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?
(a) Adrian Hunter.
(b) The other man researching the Kanoli legend.
(c) George Papaaloa.
(d) Summer.

11. Why is diving on a wrecked submarine different from a wrecked ship for Dirk?
(a) Because the submarine doesn't appear to have been wrecked at all.
(b) Because he feels like he knows this crew from reading the manuscript.
(c) Because he's diving with only one partner this time.
(d) Because ships are supposed to be on the surface of the water, whereas the sub is in its natural environment.

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

13. What is Dirk's psychological assessment of sailors in relation to the intention of the staging of the Lillie Marlene?
(a) That they are committed to a life spent at sea no matter what.
(b) That they are mostly scientific in their outlook and it would take an extraordinary level of danger to convince them to stay away from an area of ocean.
(c) That their innermost fears are connected to drowning or dying at sea.
(d) That most sailors are as mercenary as any other crew.

14. What is Dirk's room number?
(a) 110.
(b) 1010.
(c) 321.
(d) 4211.

15. How long has it been since someone researched the sunken island at George Papaaloa's museum?
(a) Since right after World War Two.
(b) Two weeks ago.
(c) During the Vietnam War.
(d) No one has ever asked for information about it from George.

Short Answer Questions

1. By ADM Hunter's estimation, how deep is the water where the Starbuck sinks?

2. What is the time lapse between the disaster that befell the ship and the beginning of the narrative that ADM Hunter relates?

3. What smell is associated with the attack on the Lillie Marlene?

4. What unusual equipment does LT Stanley sight on the first wreck that the Martha Ann discovers?

5. How long does the Navy extend searches for its missing vessels or crew?

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