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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 wakes up Dirk after he reaches his hotel room and falls asleep after leaving the hospital?
(a) ADM Hunter.
(b) ADM Sandecker.
(c) Adrian Hunter.
(d) CAPT Orl Cinana.

2. Why does Delphi let SN Farris live?
(a) Farris offers to help Delphi.
(b) He enjoys torturing the man.
(c) He hopes Farris would train his men to work the submarine.
(d) He wants to lure the Navy back with the hopes of a survivor.

3. What argument does Summer use to convince Delphi not to shoot Al and Dirk inside the seamount?
(a) That the blood will stain the floor.
(b) That she's afraid of guns.
(c) That she loves Dirk.
(d) That he should not being death and bloodshed within his home.

4. What does Dirk omit from his report on the fight against Them in his hotel room?
(a) Adrian's story.
(b) His anticipation of the attack.
(c) The plan to make his death look accidental.
(d) Summer's involvement.

5. How does Frederick Moran die?
(a) Delphi shoots him when he becomes too old to serve Delphi's evil purpose any longer.
(b) He drowns when a pump fails and the tunnel floods.
(c) He kills himself.
(d) He dies of a heart attack at age 76.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Who does Dirk report the attack on Adrian to?

4. What smell does Dirk suddenly recognize as the fog begins to envelop the Martha Ann?

5. What is the Joint Chiefs' decision on what to do with the Starbuck?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pitt know that the Martha Ann is out of radio contact with the world?

2. Why does Dirk flood the Starbuck's torpedo compartment?

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

4. What does Delphi say is his main objective? What does Dirk say is Delphi's main objective?

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. Who or what is Selma Snoop?

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