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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the weather as the Martha Ann gets underway?
(a) Air is warm, sky is clear, sea is calm.
(b) Red sky at night and gentle swells.
(c) Wind beginning to pick up, storm's coming.
(d) Ominously still with almost suspiciously flat seas.

2. By ADM Hunter's estimation, how deep is the water where the Starbuck sinks?
(a) 160 feet.
(b) 500 feet.
(c) 3,000 yards.
(d) 1 nautical mile.

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

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

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

6. Who says to Dirk: "If you keep staring at me, I'll be forced to charge you admission."?
(a) The blonde girl from Dirk's fifth grade class.
(b) Capt. Orl Cinana
(c) Adrian Hunter.
(d) Summer Moran.

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

8. Why does ADM Hunter think the crew could have still escaped and survived?
(a) There are fishing trawler's nearby the crew could have reached.
(b) The distance from the sub escape hatches to the surface is easily reachable with or without SCUBA gear.
(c) There are plenty of life rafts.
(d) There is a chase ship three nautical miles away.

9. Why does Dirk argue that the Martha Ann's bevy of detection equipment may not keep her safe come nightfall?
(a) She has no defenses, the sailors carry no more than sidearms.
(b) Any electrical malfunction will leave her defenseless.
(c) Her sensors are blind in the dark.
(d) The fog that supposedly comes up at night may blind the sensors.

10. Why is the Starbuck's final position report physically impossible?
(a) The geo-coordinates put her position on land.
(b) The water is too shallow for her location.
(c) There is no trace of the submarine at that position.
(d) The submarine is not fast enough to have covered the mileage between her two last position reports.

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

12. Why is Dirk beginning to distrust his situational awareness after his visit to the museum and George Papaaloa?
(a) He is feeling naïve and vulnerable after his encounter with Summer.
(b) He is seeing beady-eyed malefactors everywhere.
(c) He is tired and hungover.
(d) He can't concentrate on business because he keeps thinking about Adrian.

13. What is Dirk's plan of action on the Martha Ann with only two hours to go before dark falls?
(a) To improvise the best defenses the crew can muster.
(b) To conduct an underwater search of the seamount.
(c) To dive on the sub.
(d) To build a decoy to help defend the ship from the probable nighttime attack.

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

15. What is the radio code for having found the Starbuck?
(a) "The cat's in the cradle."
(b) "Returning to base for repairs to starboard engine."
(c) "Stopped all engines to repair a burned shaft bearing."
(d) Nothing. Strict radio silence is essential.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the Martha Ann's depth at the start of their search pattern?

3. Why does Dirk stop to talk to George Papaaloa?

4. How does Admiral Hunter know that Dirk has never served on a submarine?

5. How long can the reactor continue to run unattended?

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