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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 found about a hundred and fifty yards upriver of where the Eagle was?

2. How many times had the volcano erupted in the last century?

3. Which car did Sandecker linger by?

4. What is the Volga?

5. What word(s) signaled to Lucas that double talk was being dropped?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Oscar Lucas so nervous?

2. Why does Pitt want to send out a press release regarding the Pilottown and the San Marino?

3. How does the President have domestic enemies?

4. What did the woman's thrill come from after she had looked at the money again?

5. Why can't the Russian government deduce how Min Koryo pulled off the abduction of the President?

6. Describe Madame Bougainville.

7. Why would the young woman have not been watched in the vault?

8. What was strange about the condition of the Pilottown?

9. Why did Lugovoy tremble inwardly?

10. How is Dirk Pitt described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the influence of Al Giordino and Admiral Sandecker. How do they come through for Dirk? How has Dirk come through for them? Describe their relationship with Dirk, and how it affects the development of the plot.

Essay Topic 2

Explain how the setting of the sinking of the Leonid Andreyev made it ideal to not bend the reality of the situation to the breaking point. How did the setting contribute to the rescue of the survivors? How did it also provide a good backdrop for Pitt to be a hero?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the characters of Lee Tong and Alan Moran. How are they created to be the least likable character, and what traits make them such? Are these traits present in every detestable character? Explain your answer.

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