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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In spite of all of the odd people Dirk has met since the beginning of the book, who is it that still haunts him as he gets underway on the Martha Ann?
(a) Summer.
(b) The other man researching the Kanoli legend.
(c) George Papaaloa.
(d) Adrian Hunter.

3. How long has it been since someone researched the sunken island at George Papaaloa's museum?
(a) Since right after World War Two.
(b) No one has ever asked for information about it from George.
(c) During the Vietnam War.
(d) Two weeks ago.

4. 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.

5. What is Dirk wearing when he goes to see Admiral Hunter for the first time?
(a) His business suit.
(b) His military uniform.
(c) His bathing suit.
(d) His wetsuit.

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

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

8. What is Dirk's psychological assessment of sailors in relation to the intention of the staging of the Lillie Marlene?
(a) That they are committed to a life spent at sea no matter what.
(b) That they are mostly scientific in their outlook and it would take an extraordinary level of danger to convince them to stay away from an area of ocean.
(c) That most sailors are as mercenary as any other crew.
(d) That their innermost fears are connected to drowning or dying at sea.

9. Who is Adrian Hunter?
(a) Dirk's girlfriend.
(b) A spy trying to kill Admiral Hunter.
(c) Admiral Hunter's daughter.
(d) A government operative trying to kill Dirk.

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

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

12. How does Dirk know that Summer is lying about her reasons for wanting information on Adrian Hunter?
(a) He knows that Adrian does not have access to classified information.
(b) Adrian told him a different story.
(c) He finds papers on her that tell a different story.
(d) He doesn't, but he suspects that she is.

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

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

15. Who is Dirk Pitt's father?
(a) White House Chief of Staff.
(b) A Representative from Minnesota, on the House Armed Services Committee.
(c) A Senator from California, Chairman of the Naval Appropriations Committee.
(d) Chief, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the manuscript turn out to be?

2. How many consonants does the Hawaiian language have?

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

4. Why does ADM Hunter think the crew could have still escaped and survived?

5. Why is the Starbuck's final position report physically impossible?

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