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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. What are Boland's instructions upon hearing Dirk's message from the supposedly wrecked submarine?
(a) Standby for a relief crew.
(b) Have March review the operating procedures for the boat's ballast tanks.
(c) Standby for further instructions on how to make the boat operational.
(d) Return to the Martha Ann at once.

2. Why does Dirk's gun do him no good in the shootout with the gray Dodge van that tails him after he leaves the museum?
(a) He can't reach it.
(b) His aim is terrible.
(c) He never loaded the ammunition.
(d) It is stolen out of his car.

3. What color are Dirk's eyes?
(a) Gray.
(b) Brown.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

4. Why is Dirk beginning to distrust his situational awareness after his visit to the museum and George Papaaloa?
(a) He is feeling naïve and vulnerable after his encounter with Summer.
(b) He is tired and hungover.
(c) He can't concentrate on business because he keeps thinking about Adrian.
(d) He is seeing beady-eyed malefactors everywhere.

5. What is the time lapse between the disaster that befell the ship and the beginning of the narrative that ADM Hunter relates?
(a) Unknown.
(b) Six months.
(c) Five days.
(d) Two weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says "As long as there are seas, ships, and men, there will be strange unsolved mysteries."?

2. What are the two most important things about the sub's condition that Dirk reports to Boland?

3. Who is the author of the manuscript, excerpts of which are transcribed in Chapter 2?

4. Where is Dirk at the opening of the book?

5. How long has it been since someone researched the sunken island at George Papaaloa's museum?

Short Essay Questions

1. Boland refers to himself as "the skipper" of the Martha Ann. What is a skipper?

2. 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?

3. Why is the Starbuck's last reported position Top Secret information?

4. Why is it important for ADM Hunter's men to get to the accident site when the gray van runs off the road before the Honolulu police?

5. What is the Fullerton Fracture Zone? Does it actually exist?

6. What two things does the receptionist at ADM Hunter's office assume of Dirk Pitt when he arrives in his bathing suit?

7. CDR Dupree says he ordered, "All ballast blown and hard rise on the planes." What are planes in reference to a submarine?

8. How are the dead bodies described on the Lillie Marlene? How does this description contribute to the myth of the Pacific Vortex?

9. Acting on a hunch, Dirk goes to the Polynesian history museum to visit a friend well versed in the history and culture of the Hawaiian and Pacific Islands. Why?

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

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