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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 is the correct phrasing to ask someone to repeat their message or to indicate you are repeating your message?
(a) Say again.
(b) Second time.
(c) Read back.
(d) Re-transmit.

2. Who is the author of the manuscript, excerpts of which are transcribed in Chapter 2?
(a) CDR Dupree.
(b) ADM Hunter.
(c) SN Farris.
(d) Dirk Pratt.

3. How is the boarding party killed according to the San Gabriel's report?
(a) They drowned.
(b) They are victims of the killers "from the mist."
(c) They are blown up with the Lillie Marlene before they can take her in tow.
(d) They are not killed.

4. What is dangerous about Dirk's swim out to the object in the water?
(a) Riptides and sharks.
(b) Dirk doesn't swim very well.
(c) Coral reefs and kelp.
(d) 15 foot waves.

5. What does Dirk first do with the manuscript he finds?
(a) He puts it back where he found it.
(b) He reads half of it and then puts it away when he realizes it is not for his eyes.
(c) He tosses it in his knapsack for later.
(d) He reads it in its entirety.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What strikes Dirk as odd about the galley and lounge area of the Starbuck on his initial recon mission with LT March?

3. Why does ADM Hunter think the crew could have still escaped and survived?

4. What or who is Andrei Vyborg?

5. What is the Martha Ann's depth at the start of their search pattern?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are some of the ways that Dirk knows that Summer is neither a government agent nor an American?

3. "Perhaps Pitt could do the impossible after all." These words go through Boland's mind after he hears that Pitt is radioing the Martha Ann from the Starbuck. There are several other references throughout the book so far that indicate Dirk has a reputation for being the sort of person who makes the wildly improbable succeed effortless. Who else has said this and where is that perception originating?

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

5. Why is Dirk's helicopter a necessary component of the crew on the Martha Ann?

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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.

10. How does Cussler describe ADM Sandecker at the beginning of Chapter that makes him seem like a likely person to work with Dirk Pitt?

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