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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the radio communications between Big Daddy and the Kid?
(a) Kid's radio fails.
(b) The signal is lost due to an electrical storm.
(c) ADM Hunter makes an executive decision to maintain radio silence until the final hour.
(d) Delphi's transmitter intercepts the signal.

2. 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.

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

4. Who is Al Giordino?
(a) An adventurer for hire.
(b) The owner of a charter plane company on Hawaii.
(c) The Assistant Special Projects Director at NUMA.
(d) ADM Sandecker's boss.

5. What is Boland's reaction to the news that March is dead?
(a) "How could you let him die?"
(b) "These things happen."
(c) "I'll tell his mother."
(d) "This is your fault Dirk."

6. How does SN Farris react to the battle raging around him on the Martha Ann?
(a) He is asleep.
(b) He engages in the gun battle, relieved to be able to vent some of his anger at the men from the sea.
(c) He is having a panic attack as he relives the horror of what happened to the
(d) He is dazedly unconcerned, almost disconnected from reality.

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

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

9. What causes the current that injures Dirk and Al?
(a) Delphi's protective current barrier, similar in function to a moat around a castle.
(b) Underwater vortex suction.
(c) Power turbine's exhaust current.
(d) Natural underwater river.

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

11. Which friend of her father's does Adrian admit to Dirk she has been sleeping with?
(a) LCDR Boland.
(b) CAPT Cinana.
(c) CDR Denver.
(d) ADM Sandecker.

12. 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 50, ranging from 3 to 10 feet each.
(c) About 500, all identically sized.
(d) About 200, roughly 5-7 feet in length each.

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

14. What two scientists does Dirk report to when he arrives at Pearl Harbor after the attack in his hotel room?
(a) Doctors Lavella and Roblemann.
(b) Doctors Chrysler and York.
(c) Doctors Ford and Newce.
(d) Doctors Trinidad and Goldman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of Delphi's men does Crowhaven's team kill?

2. What does "noncom" mean as it is used in the beginning of Chapter 10?

3. How many men escape with Dirk on the helicopter from the Martha Ann?

4. Who does Dirk go in search of before taking off in the helicopter?

5. How is the rescue team tracking the submarine's location?

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