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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Adrian Hunter?
(a) A government operative trying to kill Dirk.
(b) Dirk's girlfriend.
(c) Admiral Hunter's daughter.
(d) A spy trying to kill Admiral Hunter.

2. Why does Dirk stop to talk to George Papaaloa?
(a) To learn more about Pacific Islands.
(b) To find out what he knows about Summer.
(c) To find out what he knows about the Pacific Vortex.
(d) To shake off the person tailing him.

3. Roughly how large is the Martha Ann in Dirk's estimate?
(a) 2,000 tons.
(b) 12,000 tons.
(c) 60,000 lbs.
(d) 240,000 lbs.

4. What is the hull number of the Starbuck?
(a) 999.
(b) 698.
(c) 899.
(d) 989.

5. Who does Dirk call first to report the incident with the gray van?
(a) ADM Hunter.
(b) The Honolulu Police.
(c) ADM Sandecker.
(d) Adrian Hunter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Dirk initially talking to in the bar at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel?

2. How does Admiral Hunter know that Dirk has never served on a submarine?

3. Besides his direction on delivering his message, what is CDR Dupree's final request?

4. What or who is Andrei Vyborg?

5. What is the radio code for having found the Starbuck?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dirk determine that Hunter's crew has been searching the wrong area?

2. How does Adrian Hunter feel about her father? Use quotes from Chapter to support your position.

3. Cussler gives a good description of rip tides after Dirk has swum out beyond the breakers at Kaena Point. Describe them, why they are dangerous and explain how best to swim through them if caught in one.

4. Cussler also provides good information about shark behavior and risks. What is it?

5. Capt. Cinana quotes a Naval saying: "Those that lie deep in the Atlantic Sea Are recalled by shrines, wreathes and poetry, But those who lie in Pacific Sea Lie forgotten for all eternity." What does this mean?

6. Dirk sees no need to show up on time to his "date" with ADM Hunter (to report for duty). How is this reflective of both Dirk's personality and his attitude towards ADM Hunter?

7. Other than the submarine not being wholly flooded, what is the single most important fact that Dirk relays over the Starbuck's radio to the Martha Ann and why is it of the utmost significance?

8. What is a seamount?

9. What are the different mysteries or questions that ADM Hunter enumerates as he reads the log?

10. What are the multiple ways that the Martha Ann is disguised as a civilian ship?

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