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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did each diver pay per trip to dive the wrecked sub?

2. How many months did Neuerburg spend in U-boat training?

3. How many pounds of TNT were in German submarine torpedoes?

4. Where was the mystery sub built?

5. After a successful videotaping, when did Chatterton and Kohler plan to return to the wreck?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was a circle-runner?

2. What news did Robert Coppock send Chatterton and Kohler?

3. Why did Chatterton take a sledgehammer into the electric motor room?

4. What was the SS Carolina?

5. Why did Herbert Guschewski believe he was lucky to be alive?

6. What was Kohler's plan for the first dive of the 1993 season?

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

8. What did Chatterton think about during their decompression after he managed to get a box out of the electric motor room?

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

10. What happened to Brandt's submarine in February 1943?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nagle was an alcoholic. Discuss his decline due to the alcohol and how he died.

Essay Topic 2

Guschewski thought that Neuerburg and Brandt were opposites. Compare and contrast Neuerburg and Brandt.

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.

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