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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is diving on a wrecked submarine different from a wrecked ship for Dirk?
(a) Because ships are supposed to be on the surface of the water, whereas the sub is in its natural environment.
(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 the submarine doesn't appear to have been wrecked at all.

2. According to CDR Dupree's log, which compartment in the sub is the only compartment breached?
(a) The aft missile cabin.
(b) The captain's quarters.
(c) The forward torpedo room.
(d) The reactor room.

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

4. 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) CDR Dupree does no such thing, those directions are added later.
(c) CDR Dupree admired ADM Hunter.
(d) ADM Hunter does not know.

5. Why does the Martha Ann appear old and rusted?
(a) She is salvaged from the scrap yard.
(b) She's over forty years old.
(c) Clever camouflage paint.
(d) The sailor's are more interested in maintaining the battleships than a salvage ship.

6. What is unusual about the security on the Martha Ann?
(a) They conduct a full body pat-down search prior to allowing entrance to the ship.
(b) The security guards operate in total darkness.
(c) There is none, it's not supposed to be a Naval vessel.
(d) They require three forms of id from Dirk in addition to official orders from ADM Hunter.

7. 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) There is a chase ship three nautical miles away.
(c) The distance from the sub escape hatches to the surface is easily reachable with or without SCUBA gear.
(d) There are plenty of life rafts.

8. 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".

9. Why does ADM Sandecker say that Dirk is a security risk because he's read the manuscript?
(a) Because the Navy wants to cover up the submarine Captain's errors.
(b) Because Japan will want to cover up their involvement with the missing submarine.
(c) Because the Russians attacked the sub in international waters and want to cover it up.
(d) Because foreign governments want to find the missing sub.

10. 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) A waterspout.
(d) An isolated fog bank.

11. What does the message say that the NUMA zoologist received against a microphone he is using to record fish sounds?
(a) Directions to the nearest port.
(b) A physical description of a coven of mermaids.
(c) Einstein's relativity equation.
(d) An equation for finding the water pressure at the depth the microphone is located.

12. What does George Papaaloa ask Dirk about progress on that that Dirk had recently been diving to find?
(a) Atlantis.
(b) The burial cave of King Kamehameha.
(c) The burial grounds of the Koolau tribe.
(d) Iolani Palace.

13. Roughly how large is the Martha Ann in Dirk's estimate?
(a) 240,000 lbs.
(b) 2,000 tons.
(c) 60,000 lbs.
(d) 12,000 tons.

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

15. When is strict radio silence imposed for a US Navy submarine?
(a) When in transit from missions.
(b) When a sub is on patrol or on station.
(c) When the captain orders it.
(d) At all times.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nickname of the area where the Starbuck went missing?

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

3. What does the manuscript turn out to be?

4. What is the radio code for having found the Starbuck?

5. How long does it take for Dirk to get the helicopter the Martha Ann is carrying from a cold start into the air?

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