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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 was the name of the ship that was destroyed?

2. What was Pitt's part of the mission?

3. Who and what ended up saving the Special Forces and the majority of the hostages?

4. What are the names of Topiltzin and Yazid's younger brother and sister?

5. Whose ring does the Senator use to carve a hole in the window and fiberglass?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pitt know the terrorists are aware of?

2. Why does Hala change her mind and decide to announce the immanent discovery of the antiquities?

3. What information is missing on Yazid?

4. Why would no archaeologist back what Pitt was saying about Venator coming to the Americas?

5. What sounds like a "grand plan" to the President and to Douglas Oates?

6. How did the Special Forces team mess up?

7. What happens when Ammar pushes the button for the detonation?

8. What is the difference between papyrus and parchment?

9. What was the easiest excuse to get the security guards into the room to be killed? How were they killed?

10. What kind of things were loaded onto the Lady Flamborough?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Those with the knowledge have the power to rule. Explain through research how with great knowledge comes responsibility. Explain how some people have lost their way in the pursuit of knowledge and how you think this is possible.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Pick two characters from the book to compare and contrast against each other. How would the plot line have been affected if these two characters had interacted more often? How do they interact as it is? Would these two characters make a good team? Why or why not?

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