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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 the seamount?
(a) Dirk carries her to the surface.
(b) She doesn't.
(c) She swims, carrying Dirk who is too injured to move.
(d) She is rescued by the Starbuck .

2. Where does Dirk land the helicopter after evacuating the Martha Ann?
(a) Hickam Field airport.
(b) Pearl Harbor.
(c) The military hospital on Oahu.
(d) The neatly manicured front lawn of ADM Hunter's home.

3. Why doesn't Pearl Harbor know what has been happening with the Martha Ann and the finding of the Starbuck intact?
(a) LCDR Boland has not sent any messages.
(b) All radio signals in the area are being jammed.
(c) The radios have becomes mysteriously inoperable since they arrived at the Pacific Vortex.
(d) The Martha Ann has been using the wrong frequency.

4. What smell does Dirk suddenly recognize as the fog begins to envelop the Martha Ann?
(a) Melting plastic.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Sulfur.
(d) Eucalyptus.

5. Who wakes up Dirk after he reaches his hotel room and falls asleep after leaving the hospital?
(a) Adrian Hunter.
(b) ADM Sandecker.
(c) ADM Hunter.
(d) CAPT Orl Cinana.

6. What does Dirk discover on the bodies of two the men from the sea that he kills?
(a) Webbed hands and feet.
(b) Green skin and hair.
(c) Gills.
(d) A small plastic box adhered to their chests.

7. Who is Henry Fujima?
(a) A Hawaiian historian who tells Dirk about tuna fishing in the Pacific.
(b) The doctor who takes charge of SN Farris back at Pearl Harbor.
(c) A Hawaiian fisherman who is run over by a ship in the beginning of Chapter 12.
(d) A friend of George Papaaloa.

8. How does Dirk discover LT March after he realizes they are not alone on the submarine?
(a) Dead, he's been shot.
(b) Wounded, he's been stabbed.
(c) Hiding and wounded.
(d) Dirk cannot find him.

9. What does "noncom" mean as it is used in the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Non-commissioned, meaning not an officer.
(b) Non-communicative, meaning unable or unwilling to speak.
(c) Not-in-compliance, meaning the person or vessel is not obeying instructions.
(d) Non-commissioned, meaning not an authorized Naval vessel.

10. How does Frederick Moran die?
(a) He dies of a heart attack at age 76.
(b) Delphi shoots him when he becomes too old to serve Delphi's evil purpose any longer.
(c) He kills himself.
(d) He drowns when a pump fails and the tunnel floods.

11. Where is Delphi's transmitter that allows him to jam radio signals?
(a) On the island of Maui at an abandoned Army installation.
(b) In downtown Honolulu, on top of a skyscraper.
(c) On Midway Island, in a remote corner of one of the uninhabited islands in the atoll.
(d) On a sandbar 20 nautical miles northwest of Kauai.

12. Who does Dirk report the attack on Adrian to?
(a) The Honolulu police.
(b) The Pearl Harbor Shore Patrol.
(c) ADM Hunter.
(d) The hotel security team.

13. What is the first visible evidence of the real nature of "Them?"
(a) The man Dirk kills appears to have evolved gills.
(b) Dirk sees a shadow outline of one which appears to have a tail and webbed feet.
(c) The guard that Dirk kills turns out to be a normal human man.
(d) Dirk finds evidence of human habitation in the crew's quarters.

14. What kind of shark meets Al as he speeds towards the surface with Adrian?
(a) Hammerhead.
(b) Mako.
(c) None.
(d) Great White.

15. What is the size of the school of fish the Martha Ann's sensors detect as they prepare to escape the Pacific Vortex area?
(a) About 2,000, roughly 2-3 feet in length each.
(b) About 500, all identically sized.
(c) About 50, ranging from 3 to 10 feet each.
(d) About 200, roughly 5-7 feet in length each.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the plan for the plane the rescue team flies out to the Pacific Vortex?

2. How long has the giant with the golden eyes been keeping tabs on Dirk's activities?

3. What does Roblemann invent?

4. What s the first indication that the Martha Ann is in danger at the beginning of Chapter 11?

5. Who does Dirk finally meet during Their attack on him and Adrian?

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