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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Summer escape Dirk's hotel room?
(a) By knotting towels together and escaping out the window.
(b) By knocking Dirk out and running.
(c) By threatening Dirk with a gun.
(d) By threatening to call the police.

2. What is Dirk's official professional title?
(a) Special Projects Director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency.
(b) Director of the National Maritime Domain Council.
(c) Naval Appropriations Director.
(d) National Undersea Warfare, Chief Counsel.

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

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

5. Who does Dirk call first to report the incident with the gray van?
(a) Adrian Hunter.
(b) The Honolulu Police.
(c) ADM Sandecker.
(d) ADM Hunter.

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

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

8. What is Dirk's military rank?
(a) Major.
(b) Lieutenant Colonel.
(c) Ensign.
(d) Captain.

9. What does the manuscript turn out to be?
(a) Half of an Admiral's autobiography.
(b) Mostly undreadable.
(c) 26 pages from the submarine Starbuck's log.
(d) An unauthorized history of naval submarines.

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

11. What strikes Dirk as odd about the galley and lounge area of the Starbuck on his initial recon mission with LT March?
(a) There is no corrosion on anything.
(b) The tv is still working.
(c) There are stacks of dirty dishes, but no soap.
(d) There is no paper and nothing perishable.

12. 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) Toxic waste spewing from the submarine's damaged reactor.
(d) A dye marker in the water.

13. What color is Summer's hair?
(a) Black.
(b) Dirty blonde.
(c) Red.
(d) Dark brown.

14. What unusual equipment does LT Stanley sight on the first wreck that the Martha Ann discovers?
(a) An old Volkswagen beetle.
(b) A satellite dish.
(c) A gyroscope.
(d) A farm tractor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator of Chapter 2?

2. Who is Adrian Hunter?

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

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

5. Who says "As long as there are seas, ships, and men, there will be strange unsolved mysteries."?

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