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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the U.S. Embassy's Deputy Chief of Mission?
(a) He is kidnapped by Japanese terrorists.
(b) He kills a washroom attendant.
(c) He is shot in a hotel washroom.
(d) He is revealed to be a double agent.

2. Who is described in Chapter 31 as a "fiery bantam?"
(a) Ryan.
(b) Gunn.
(c) Sandecker.
(d) Darla.

3. What do Dirk and Jack initially think the fishing trawler is doing in Chapter 2?
(a) The trawler is spying on American ships.
(b) The trawler is operated by Greenpeace.
(c) The trawler is poaching sea lions.
(d) The trawler is illegally fishing for dolphins.

4. Where are the U.S. ambassador to Japan and British ambassador to Japan found at the opening of Chapter 4?
(a) On a golf course.
(b) In a restaurant.
(c) On board a ship.
(d) In a sauna.

5. Who is the section chief of the FBI's International Terrorism Operations?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Timothy.
(c) Theodore.
(d) Tyler.

6. Who does Dirk call after Cussler returns him to Inchon?
(a) Giordino.
(b) Gunn.
(c) Tonguj.
(d) Kang.

7. What happens to Dirk at the end of Chapter 34?
(a) He rescues his sister.
(b) He is freed from his restraints.
(c) He passes out.
(d) He is rescued by one of Kang's henchmen.

8. What is variola major?
(a) Anthrax.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) HIV-1.
(d) Herpes.

9. What country does the Baekje go to?
(a) Korea.
(b) China.
(c) Japan.
(d) Taiwan.

10. How was smallpox first introduced to the New World?
(a) By the crews of Captain Cook.
(b) By the crews of Christopher Columbus.
(c) By the crews of Lief Erikson.
(d) By the crews of Ponce de Leon.

11. What is the payload on board the I-403's final voyage?
(a) Freeze-dried bubonic plague.
(b) Freeze-dried smallpox.
(c) Freeze-dried anthrax.
(d) Freeze-dried measles.

12. Who is Irv Fowler?
(a) A scientist saved from the Aleutian Island poisoning at the beginning of the book.
(b) A submarine commander from WWII.
(c) An inventor who learned how to weaponize cyanide.
(d) An American scientist from WWII.

13. What is an "evil wind?"
(a) A malamuke.
(b) A makaze.
(c) A moniker.
(d) A mulette.

14. What does the bald man in the hotel room do to Catana?
(a) Shoots him.
(b) Stabs him.
(c) Throws him from a window.
(d) Injects him with a needle.

15. How is the Japanese sub discovered on the ocean floor?
(a) By radar.
(b) By sonar.
(c) By submersible cameras.
(d) By satellite imagery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tonguj?

2. What are Dirk Pitt, Sr., and Al Giordino doing in the Philippines?

3. Who is the research vessel looking for in Chapter 3?

4. What is the name of the island at the lower end of Puget Sound that Dirk and Sarah go to?

5. Who is Ed Coyle?

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