View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ship sank the U-857?

2. What was the name for the Allied monitoring and decrypting of Enigma.

3. How many stage bottles had the Rouses left behind?

4. How far apart did Chatterton and Kohler live from one another?

5. From which naval class was the commander of the U-869 from?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were the post-war assessors and what did they do?

2. How did the Atlantic Wreck Divers treat Kohler when he dived with Chatterton?

3. Why wasn't the wreck the U-851 or U-158?

4. How was Feldman's body found?

5. How did Chatterton and Kohler learn that the sub had been identified?

6. What did Chatterton learn about Horenburg from Merten, Bredow, and Grutzemacher?

7. Who called Kohler the night before he was to go to Washington with Chatterton to research subs?

8. In a phone call several months after Chatterton sent out inquiries about the knife, what did a U-boat enthusiast tell Chatteron?

9. What was Nagle's personal appearance when the "Seeker" made the first trip back to the wreck in 1992?

10. What was the commissioning dinner like for the U-602?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Chatterton had a risky plan for getting into the electric motor room. Discuss Chatterton's plan and why it was so dangerous.

Essay Topic 2

Chatterton wanted to believe the mystery wreck was the U-851 and Kohler wanted to believe it was the U-158. Discuss why it was thought that the wreck might be the U-851 or U-158 and how the men proved or disproved their theories.

Essay Topic 3

Chatterton and Kohler discovered that they could not trust written histories about the U-boats. Discuss why the men could not trust historical accounts.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 711 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample