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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the President want from Nichols?
(a) Information regarding Akhmad Yazid
(b) News of Guy Rivas
(c) Information regarding Topiltzin
(d) Information regarding Hala Kamil

2. What is for dessert?
(a) Black forest cake
(b) Triple layer fudge brownies
(c) Strawberry rhubarb pie
(d) Coffee chocolate trifle

3. What was the knife that cut out Rivas' heart made of?
(a) Stainless Steel
(b) Obsidian
(c) Blackened Steel
(d) Mica

4. What did the cab driver think when he had dropped Dirk off?
(a) That the situation looked like he was going to get mugged
(b) That his wife needed him to pick up spices on the way home
(c) That Dirk desperately needed a shower
(d) That Dirk was never going to pay up

5. Why was Nichols summoned?
(a) For an identification
(b) To personally view the briefcases contents and inform the president
(c) For verification of what they found
(d) To bring barf bags to the pathology labs

6. What symbol was on the altar?
(a) A skull and crossbones
(b) A skeleton
(c) A skull
(d) Crossbones

7. Who has Yazid handed the contract killing of Kamil to?
(a) Mohommod Ismail
(b) Muhammad Ismail
(c) Mohammed Ismail
(d) Muhammad Irmail

8. What captivated Dirk Pitt?
(a) The silence of the Arctic
(b) The ease at which they'd saved the crash victims
(c) The beauty of the women he'd met
(d) The ease at which they'd found the Russian sub

9. How wide was the entrance shaft?
(a) One and a half meters
(b) Six meters
(c) Two meters
(d) Three meters

10. Who rescued Lily?
(a) Graham
(b) Gronquist
(c) Dirk Pitt
(d) Hoskins

11. Who was Dirk Pitt's closest friend since childhood?
(a) Frank Giordino
(b) Al Giordino
(c) Bill Wasteman
(d) Ed Girodino

12. What is Ammar's wealth estimated at?
(a) Sixty million dollars
(b) Seventy five million dollars
(c) Seventy million dollars
(d) Over a billion dollars

13. What could have this place been mistaken for?
(a) King Tut's tomb
(b) The catacombs beneath Paris
(c) A burial site
(d) The catacombs beneath Rome

14. What is preventing Yazid's ascent to power?
(a) The US government official, Nichols
(b) Hala Kamil
(c) The Egyptian President
(d) The US President

15. What crashed the snowmobile Lily and Gronquist were on?
(a) They hit a piece of the plane's wing
(b) They nearly hit an engine
(c) They hit a furrow in the ice created by the plane
(d) They nearly hit a piece of the plane's wing

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Serapis' captain's name?

2. What did Nichols do, first thing after viewing the contents?

3. What did the U.S. offer the Russians?

4. What shape is the poison guava?

5. What is Venator paying?

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