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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is LT Robert Buckmaster?
(a) Crowhaven's nav officer.
(b) Head of Shore Patrol at Pearl Harbor.
(c) The Marine officer in charge of taking the transmitter station.
(d) A former navy officer who defected to Delphi.

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

3. How does Crowhaven manage to get in touch with ADM Hunter?
(a) Via a commercial radio station in Honolulu.
(b) Using Morse code through a late night ham radio operator.
(c) By calling the Coast Guard.
(d) Via the NWS weather radio frequency.

4. How many of "Them" are on the Starbuck according to SN Farris?
(a) None.
(b) One on duty, one resting.
(c) Two guards at all times.
(d) Three guards and a radio-man.

5. Dirk and Al leave the rescue team to salvage the Starbuck while they go to do what?
(a) Find the entrance to the seamount and rescue Adrian Hunter.
(b) Find Summer Moran.
(c) Arrest Delphi.
(d) Keep watch for Delphi's men.

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

7. What s the first indication that the Martha Ann is in danger at the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) A thick fog coming up from the ocean surface.
(b) Sudden change in sea state.
(c) Sudden radio silence.
(d) A continuous thumping sound coming from the bottom of the hull.

8. What is in the hypodermic syringe that Summer assaults Dirk with?
(a) A heavy dose of AP-23 barbituate, a knockout drug.
(b) Scopolamine, exactly as she said.
(c) DG-10, a deadly poison.
(d) Enough Thorazine to lay out a horse.

9. What does Boland want Dirk to do before the invasion of the Martha Ann begins?
(a) Help him arm the crew.
(b) Take the helo and report to ADM Hunter.
(c) Help him scuttle the Martha Ann.
(d) Get him and his crew off the ship.

10. Who is "Big Daddy?"
(a) The group of Navy SEALS on the rescue team.
(b) Code-name for the Starbuck rescue team.
(c) Dirk's nickname for Al Giordino.
(d) Code-name for ADM Hunter back in Pearl Harbor.

11. How does Adrian escape when the men from the sea come ashore and kill her friend?
(a) Through a two-way closet.
(b) Through a trapdoor under the bed.
(c) Out the window.
(d) Through a connecting bathroom.

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

13. How does Al prevent Delphi's gun from killing Dirk?
(a) He sticks his finger in the gun barrel.
(b) He puts his finger between the hammer and the striker pin.
(c) He secretly unloads the ammunition when Delphi is distracted.
(d) He jams the trigger, preventing it from being pulled back.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Delphi let SN Farris live?

2. What does Roblemann invent?

3. How does Dirk finally break Delphi's facade of cool indifference?

4. What does Dirk discover attached to the handrail on the side of the ship at the battle between the Martha Ann's crew and the men from the sea?

5. Who or what is Mad Chopper?

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