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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has been Delphi's informant in the Navy?
(a) LCDR Paul Boland.
(b) CAPT Orl Cinana.
(c) Adrian Hunter.
(d) CDR Burdette Denver.

2. What does Dirk determine is the real cause of the school of fish detected by the Martha Ann's sensors?
(a) Men.
(b) A decoy to distract them from the boarding team.
(c) A deliberate hijacking of the sensor's signal.
(d) Sharks in a feeding frenzy.

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

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

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

6. What is the rescue schedule for the Starbuck when Dirk, Al and the Navy team return to the Pacifc Vortex?
(a) Two hours and 45 minutes.
(b) 10 hours.
(c) 90 minutes.
(d) Four and a half hours.

7. Who are the two men waiting for Dirk in the torpedo room as he tries to escape the submarine with SN Farris?
(a) Them.
(b) Boland and Denver.
(c) Crewmembers from the Martha Ann.
(d) CDR Dupree and another of the Starbuck's crew.

8. When Dirk meets Delphi in his underwater caves, how much time is left before the seamount explodes?
(a) 50 minutes.
(b) One hour.
(c) Three hours.
(d) 15 minutes.

9. What does Dirk direct should be done to the Starbuck's torpedo room as they escape?
(a) Tear a hole in the hull.
(b) Arm the torpedoes.
(c) Drain it.
(d) Flood it.

10. Why is Dirk's and Al's mission time-critical?
(a) Because the plan is to blow up the seamount and the end of the planned time, whether or not the rescue succeeds.
(b) Because Dirk is afraid Summer will be killed.
(c) Because Delphi may escape.
(d) Because they will run out of air.

11. Who is Summer?
(a) CAPT Cinana's other mistress.
(b) Delphi's wife.
(c) Delphi's daughter.
(d) Adrian's sister.

12. How many of Them attack Dirk and Adrian?
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

13. Who does Dirk go in search of before taking off in the helicopter?
(a) SN Farris.
(b) More of "Them" to kill.
(c) The helmsman.
(d) LCDR Boland.

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

15. The Martha Ann has 20 feet of freeboard, making attack from the surface difficult according to LCDR Boland. What is freeboard?
(a) The ship's height from water surface to the top of her superstructure.
(b) The distance from the first deck of the ship to the surface of the water.
(c) The lip of the deck that juts out over the hull.
(d) The ladders over the side of her hull.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dirk omit from his report on the fight against Them in his hotel room?

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

3. How does Frederick Moran die?

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

5. What smell does Dirk suddenly recognize as the fog begins to envelop the Martha Ann?

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