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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 makes the fog associated with the Pacific Vortex so odd?
(a) The weather conditions are wrong for fog.
(b) The color is wrong.
(c) There is nothing odd or different about it, other than its there.
(d) There is a thick almost oily texture to the mist.

2. What new ship do Dirk and Al discover while on their underwater mission?
(a) The Andrei Vyborg.
(b) The Hans Zimmer.
(c) An unknown Japanese submarine.
(d) The Sampan.

3. Why is Dirk's and Al's mission time-critical?
(a) Because the plan is to blow up the seamount and the end of the planned time, whether or not the rescue succeeds.
(b) Because they will run out of air.
(c) Because Dirk is afraid Summer will be killed.
(d) Because Delphi may escape.

4. How many of "Them" are on the Starbuck according to SN Farris?
(a) Two guards at all times.
(b) One on duty, one resting.
(c) None.
(d) Three guards and a radio-man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Summer escape the seamount?

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

3. What two scientists does Dirk report to when he arrives at Pearl Harbor after the attack in his hotel room?

4. How does Frederick Moran die?

5. How does SN Farris react to the battle raging around him on the Martha Ann?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does LCDR Crowhaven's attitude change from his frame of mind on the plane, once he is within sight of the submarine and Dirk lets him know that this is where he [Dirk] gets off?

2. What are ADM Hunter and Dirk Pitt's differing opinions on Adrian?

3. 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?

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

5. What happens during Dirk's final radio transmission from the C-5airplane before they touch down on the surface of the ocean? what does it mean for their rescue mission?

6. What is unexpected and distinctly suspicious about the fog that suddenly overwhelms the Martha Ann? What kinds of conditions are required to create fog?

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

8. Who or what is Selma Snoop?

9. 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?

10. What is Delphi's plan for the Starbuck?

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