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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does it take for Dirk to get the helicopter the Martha Ann is carrying from a cold start into the air?
(a) 90 seconds.
(b) One hour.
(c) 10 minutes.
(d) 40 seconds.

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

3. What does the Marine guard at ADM Hunter's building on Pearl Harbor base ask Dirk for when he reports?
(a) Recommendations on a barber.
(b) His orders.
(c) His weapon.
(d) His identification.

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

5. What is the time lapse between the disaster that befell the ship and the beginning of the narrative that ADM Hunter relates?
(a) Unknown.
(b) Five days.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Six months.

6. How does Dirk decide who to give the manuscript to?
(a) Dirk guesses that Admiral Leigh Hunter might be interested.
(b) The manuscript is addressed to Admiral Leigh Hunter.
(c) Admiral Leigh Hunter is the only military command officer Dirk knows in the area.
(d) The manuscript is written by Admiral Leigh Hunter.

7. How long is the hull of the Starbuck?
(a) 500 feet.
(b) 320 feet.
(c) 242 feet.
(d) 150 feet.

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

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

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

11. Whose responsibility is it to plot the new search area for the Martha Ann after Dirk's interpretation of the evidence?
(a) CDR Denver.
(b) ADM Hunter.
(c) LCDR Boland.
(d) CDR Denver.

12. What smell is associated with the attack on the Lillie Marlene?
(a) Eucalyptus.
(b) Sulfur.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Melting plastic.

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

14. 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.

15. 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?
(a) Four minutes.
(b) One hour.
(c) 10 minutes.
(d) 15 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Barf the Magic Dragon?

2. What about the Starbuck's engine room strikes Dirk and LT March as suspicious?

3. What are Boland's instructions upon hearing Dirk's message from the supposedly wrecked submarine?

4. When is strict radio silence imposed for a US Navy submarine?

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

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