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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many square kilometers had been scoured in the search for the Lady?
(a) Two hundred kilometers
(b) Three hundred thousand kilometers
(c) Five hundred thousand kilometers
(d) Four hundred thousand

2. What slight flavor was in the brandy?
(a) Chocolate
(b) Coffee
(c) Cinnamon
(d) Whiskey

3. What is under the seat of the Cord?
(a) A socket wrench
(b) A magnum
(c) A liter of oil
(d) A Smith and Wesson

4. Who and what ended up saving the Special Forces and the majority of the hostages?
(a) Captain Stewart of the NUMA ship Flounder
(b) Captain Stewart of the NUMA ship Sounder
(c) Captain Collins of the Liner, the Lady Flamborough
(d) Captain Stevens of the NUMA ship Sounder

5. What is the Cord's top speed?
(a) 77 mph
(b) 140 mph
(c) 77 km/h
(d) 140 km/h

6. What is revealed in this chapter about Topiltzin and Yazid?
(a) They're from a crime family
(b) All of these
(c) They're related
(d) They're brothers

7. How could both Yazid and Topiltzin pass for native Arab and Mexican?
(a) Their mother was descended from Black slaves
(b) Their mother slept with a black man to conceive them
(c) They consistently wore makeup
(d) Their father was a Black slave

8. What happened to the woman in the water?
(a) She drowned
(b) She was rescued
(c) She was disoriented and swam down instead of up
(d) She was eaten by a shark

9. What was the familiar odor Dirk smelled?
(a) Beef
(b) Chicken
(c) Lamb
(d) Pork

10. What did Machado fail to notice?
(a) The sacrificing of his men
(b) The blip on the radar screen
(c) The escape of the hostages
(d) The incoming transmission

11. Where were the dignitaries from on the ship that the Lady crashed into?
(a) Cuban and Croatian
(b) Argentinean and Chilean
(c) Argentinean and Brazilian
(d) Brazilian and Cuban

12. Who was Clayton Findley?
(a) A geological surveyor
(b) One of the Sounder's scientists and someone who knew the island
(c) One of Hollis' men
(d) A friend of Senator Pitt, and advisor to the President

13. Who was responsible for "the Art of Grammar"?
(a) Aristophanes
(b) Dionysius
(c) Pliny
(d) Euclid

14. Whose ring does the Senator use to carve a hole in the window and fiberglass?
(a) President De Lorenzo's wife
(b) President De Lorenz's
(c) President Hasan's
(d) Hala Kamil's

15. How many plans did Pitt come up with?
(a) Four
(b) Six
(c) Five
(d) Three

Short Answer Questions

1. What two words best describe the booklet handed out to the crowd?

2. Who unwittingly walks into the hijacking?

3. What didn't Ammar do that aggravated Collins?

4. How long did Dirk say that it would take to find the Lady Flamborough?

5. Where was the Lady Flamborough headed?

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