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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 is reputed to be the brains behind the Capesterre family?

2. What country's flag was flown on the Lady Flamborough?

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

4. Who got the blame every time an assassination or terrorist plot was uncovered?

5. Where had the Serapis landed and taken on a ballast stone?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who admires Giordino and why?

2. When is the first time Pitt has been wrong in this book?

3. How did Pitt feel about the push for a location?

4. How did the Capesterres start up their crime family?

5. What is the President of the USA requesting of Senator Pitt? What is something he adds that he would normally not do?

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

7. How did Yeager manage to find that Venator had been at Barnaget Bay in New Jersey?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

If we took the story as literal, examine how you believe the world would change with the information that Junius Venators' cavern would have held. Explain how that acquisition of such artifacts would dramatically change the course of events in politics, religion, finances, and history. What kinds of things might the religious community be obligated to accept?

Essay Topic 3

What kind of information does the Latin logs of Cuccius reveal about that time frame? What does it reveal in answers to questions in the story? What kind of hope does this leave for the actual location of the relics of Alexandria?

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