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

2. How does Topiltzin plan to ensure that the southern USA relinquishes its hold on their states?
(a) Turn loose millions of his people across the line
(b) Murder one US official after another until he gets his way
(c) Politically ensure an uprising in Mexican Americans
(d) Paying people to spread disease across the line

3. What did the U.S. offer the Russians?
(a) The Middle East's oil
(b) Whatever they wanted for the capture of Yazid
(c) The first rights on any oil discovered for military backing
(d) The answers to one question they may have

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

5. What did the scent of a challenge smell like to Dirk?
(a) Like a running motor and a garage
(b) Between a mutually aroused couple and fresh mown grass after rain
(c) Like motor oil and canned air
(d) Between a sexually aroused woman and freshly-mown grass after rain

Short Answer Questions

1. Who abandoned Venator?

2. How many women did Dirk end up dating?

3. Who did Kamil think he was?

4. What had Rivas suspected when he met Topiltzin?

5. What was the name of the vessel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was preventing Pitt from finding the archaeologists camp and how did he eventually find it?

2. How was Rivas traced to Nichols?

3. What things did Rivas say the President of the USA wanted with him?

4. Why is the gold piece such an amazing discovery?

5. Once they have rescued both the archaeologists and the survivors of the crash, what does Dirk turn his attention to?

6. What was the secret purpose of the Thursday night poker game?

7. Why would recovery of the sub be a difficult endeavor?

8. Why did Topiltzin kill Rivas?

9. Why might the tablets suit any known geographical location?

10. What was the hangar and what did it contain?

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