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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says "As long as there are seas, ships, and men, there will be strange unsolved mysteries."?
(a) Dirk Pitt.
(b) Captain Cinana.
(c) CDR Dupree.
(d) ADM Sandecker

2. 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 tosses it in his knapsack for later.
(d) He reads it in its entirety.

3. What weather phenomenon features in both the reports of the Lillie Marlene and the Starbuck?
(a) A rogue wave.
(b) A maelstrom or vortex.
(c) An isolated fog bank.
(d) A waterspout.

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

5. Besides his direction on delivering his message, what is CDR Dupree's final request?
(a) Do not search for us.
(b) Please communicate with my family.
(c) Let the world know there ARE extra-terrestrials on Earth.
(d) Do not let them get us.

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

7. What is dangerous about Dirk's swim out to the object in the water?
(a) 15 foot waves.
(b) Riptides and sharks.
(c) Dirk doesn't swim very well.
(d) Coral reefs and kelp.

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

9. What does Dirk wear to report for his first day of duty with ADM Hunter?
(a) Jeans and a sport coat.
(b) A white suit with a pink shirt.
(c) Full military dress uniform.
(d) Jeans and a Hawaiian shirt.

10. How long can the reactor continue to run unattended?
(a) Indefinitely.
(b) No more than four to five weeks.
(c) Six to twelve months.
(d) Over a decade.

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

12. How does the Starbuck hit the seafloor?
(a) Perfectly parallel.
(b) Upside down.
(c) Bow first.
(d) Stern first, almost perpendicular.

13. Why does Dirk speculate that the Navy has equipped the Martha Ann with a crew of midgets?
(a) Because the escape helo only carries 15, too few for a normal crew of a vessel like the Martha Ann.
(b) Because the doorways are abnormally low on 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".

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

15. What is the nickname of the area where the Starbuck went missing?
(a) The South China Crevasse.
(b) The Bermuda Triangle.
(c) The Laurentian Abyss.
(d) The Pacific Vortex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dirk's new assignment now that he has read the submarine log and reported it?

2. How long is the hull of the Starbuck?

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

4. How does Summer escape Dirk's hotel room?

5. Why does Dirk argue that the Martha Ann's bevy of detection equipment may not keep her safe come nightfall?

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