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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Delphi let SN Farris live?
(a) Farris offers to help Delphi.
(b) He enjoys torturing the man.
(c) He hopes Farris would train his men to work the submarine.
(d) He wants to lure the Navy back with the hopes of a survivor.

4. 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) Luck.
(d) A sudden cold water upwelling.

5. What argument does Summer use to convince Delphi not to shoot Al and Dirk inside the seamount?
(a) That she's afraid of guns.
(b) That he should not being death and bloodshed within his home.
(c) That the blood will stain the floor.
(d) That she loves Dirk.

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

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

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

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

10. Why does the giant with the golden eyes select Dirk to be the messenger of the capsule?
(a) To match his wits against Dirk's for fun.
(b) To expose Dirk's prior relationship with Adrian to the ADM.
(c) Impact and believability.
(d) Respect and a desire to draw him into the game.

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

12. What is holding the Starbuck down?
(a) Lack of power.
(b) Lack of ballast.
(c) Chains Delphi used to anchor her.
(d) Seafloor suction.

13. What is Delphi's relationship to Frederick Moran?
(a) Delphi is his son.
(b) Delphi and Frederick Moran are not relatd.
(c) He is not a blood relative but they are partners.
(d) Delphi is his brother.

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

15. How does SN Farris react to the battle raging around him on the Martha Ann?
(a) He engages in the gun battle, relieved to be able to vent some of his anger at the men from the sea.
(b) He is asleep.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the current that injures Dirk and Al?

2. Who is "Big Daddy?"

3. Who is Lavella?

4. What does Roblemann invent?

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

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