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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dirk omit from his report on the fight against Them in his hotel room?
(a) Summer's involvement.
(b) The plan to make his death look accidental.
(c) Adrian's story.
(d) His anticipation of the attack.

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

3. How many of Delphi's men does Crowhaven's team kill?
(a) Three.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Fourteen.

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

5. How many men escape with Dirk on the helicopter from the Martha Ann?
(a) 11.
(b) Six.
(c) 16.
(d) All of them plus Farris.

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

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

8. Who is Summer's mother?
(a) Autumn Carrigan Moran, Delphi's concubine and wife.
(b) Alamea Aolani, a Hawaiian princess.
(c) Christine Dievkis, a Russian spy.
(d) Unknown.

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

10. 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?
(a) A floating line.
(b) A jacob's ladder.
(c) A ramp.
(d) A grappling hook.

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

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

13. What is the Joint Chiefs' decision on what to do with the Starbuck?
(a) Cover her with motion activated sensors so they can track the activity of Delphi and his men.
(b) Return as soon as possible to restart the salvage expedition.
(c) Leave her where she is.
(d) Mangle her so that her missiles cannot be launched and then raise her later.

14. How does the Starbuck break free of the ocean floor?
(a) Shock waves from the Monitor's missile strike.
(b) Aftershocks from a spontaneous undersea earthquake.
(c) A sudden cold water upwelling.
(d) Luck.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first visible evidence of the real nature of "Them?"

2. Who is LT Robert Buckmaster?

3. What is the reason for the eucalyptus oil?

4. What replacement weapon does Dirk grab after having expended his single shot weapon?

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

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