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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Boland's instructions upon hearing Dirk's message from the supposedly wrecked submarine?
(a) Standby for further instructions on how to make the boat operational.
(b) Standby for a relief crew.
(c) Have March review the operating procedures for the boat's ballast tanks.
(d) Return to the Martha Ann at once.

2. What does Dirk communicate about the sub's crew in his initial message back to the Martha Ann?
(a) It's as though they never existed.
(b) There's evidence of a struggle but no bodies.
(c) They're dead.
(d) He doesn't mention the crew.

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

4. What is "one of the finest undercover salvage operations in the world?"
(a) NUMA, ADM Sandecker's command.
(b) The 101st Salvage Fleet, ADM Hunter's command.
(c) The Russian Special Undersea Operators Progam.
(d) The Special Projects division of NUMA, Dirk Pitt's command.

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

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

7. What does "bare steerageway" mean?
(a) All covers are removed from the navigational equipment and she is to be steered manually.
(b) The sailors driving the ship are doing so naked.
(c) Clutch ahead.
(d) Just enough speed for a ship to be accurately steered.

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

9. What is the hull number of the Starbuck?
(a) 899.
(b) 698.
(c) 999.
(d) 989.

10. Where is Dirk at the opening of the book?
(a) On a beach called Kaena Point, HI.
(b) Canea Bay, Phillippines.
(c) At Kaena Cove, Japan.
(d) On a volcano called Mount Kaena, HI.

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

12. What accounts for the ocean turning a greenish color as the Martha Ann approaches the shallower water of the seamount?
(a) Source unknown.
(b) Vegetation growing on the seamount.
(c) Toxic waste spewing from the submarine's damaged reactor.
(d) A dye marker in the water.

13. How does Dirk carry Summer to the hotel?
(a) On his back.
(b) Cradled in his arms.
(c) Over his shoulder.
(d) Drags her by the arms.

14. Who is the narrator of Chapter 2?
(a) LT Carter.
(b) Dirk Pratt.
(c) ADM Hunter.
(d) CDR Dupree.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Besides his direction on delivering his message, what is CDR Dupree's final request?

3. How does Dirk describe the smell of a working port as he arrives for his departure on the Martha Ann?

4. What does Dirk first do with the manuscript he finds?

5. How does Commander Dupree report the final resting place of the Starbuck?

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