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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. Who do the world leaders determine would have anything to gain by hijacking the planeload of UN delegates?

2. Who has Yazid handed the contract killing of Kamil to?

3. Where was the poison for the rest of the delegates put?

4. What is the first thing Kamil asks Dirk?

5. What was the knife that cut out Rivas' heart made of?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Venator approach conflict over Severus?

2. Why do the analysts believe that Ammar wasn't responsible for the poisoning of the other delegates?

3. Why was it so important that Venator got back to the ship?

4. Why did Topiltzin kill Rivas?

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

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

7. Why didn't the sight of blood and the bodies sicken the impostor?

8. Why are classical works of art and literature such a vital interest to the Government of the U.S.A?

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

10. Why wouldn't the escaping seamen be believed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the nature of barbarity and savages. When taken into context, although Native Americans lived primitively, the barbaric invaders were the europeans who came here and slaughtered villages. What defines a barbarian? A savage? Relate barbarity to developed nations. How do they interact?

Essay Topic 2

How are the Alexandria artifacts a matter of National Security? What could be gained through this conflict? Whose side do you take in the battle to stay on site--Pitt's or the President's? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Dirk Pitt and James Bond. How are the two characters similar? How are they different? How do you think the world would react to such a character in real life?

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