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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 does Dirk determine is the real cause of the school of fish detected by the Martha Ann's sensors?
(a) A decoy to distract them from the boarding team.
(b) A deliberate hijacking of the sensor's signal.
(c) Men.
(d) Sharks in a feeding frenzy.

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

3. Who arrives on the comm deck as Dirk is communicating to the Martha Ann and LCDR Boland?
(a) Them.
(b) SN Farris.
(c) LT March.
(d) CDR Dupree.

4. How many men escape with Dirk on the helicopter from the Martha Ann?
(a) 16.
(b) All of them plus Farris.
(c) Six.
(d) 11.

5. What threat does Dirk face being left behind as as the others ride the air bubble from the Starbuck's escape hatch to the surface?
(a) One of Them coming to relieve the previous guards.
(b) A great white shark.
(c) A hammerhead shark.
(d) Running out of air before he can reach the surface.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the radio communications between Big Daddy and the Kid?

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

3. When Dirk meets Delphi in his underwater caves, how much time is left before the seamount explodes?

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

5. Who has been Delphi's informant in the Navy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two most important words in the English language according to Dirk? How do they serve Dirk in the battle with the men from the sea in his hotel room?

2. When Dirk discovers LCDR Boland has been stabbed with a spear, he decides the spear must come out. What is standard first aid procedure for puncture/impalement wounds and why and how does Dirk deviate from it?

3. How do Dirk and LCDR Boland differ over how to wage battle against the men from the sea as they face impending attack on the Martha Ann?

4. It is evident that Seaman First Class Farris could never have been any help to Delphi's cause or mission, however, Delphi keeps him alive, in spite of admitting to Dirk that Farris is "a minor miscalculation." What might be some reasons for this?

5. How does LCDR Crowhaven get in touch with Pearl Harbor in spite of Delphi's lock on their radio transmissions? What is the code he uses to communicate with ADM Hunter over the open wires?

6. What does LT Robert Buckmaster discover at the old Army installation, which supposedly belongs to Delphi that partially explains the entirely unexpected fierce resistance to Marine's invasion? How might this situation have come to be?

7. How does Dirk reinforce his disregard for authority upon return from the Pacific Vortex with the crew of the Martha Ann?

8. Besides Dirk's lost love, what does Summer represent to the Navy and why would it have been important to rescue her?

9. How is the scent of the eucalyptus oil explained? How does it support the theory of the seamount?

10. What does Dirk fear lays in store for the Martha Ann? What information is he now armed with that may help? What does he still not know that could be fatal?

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