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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. Which car did Sandecker linger by?

2. What is the last word of Chapter 8?

3. Which two posts are supposed to keep a sharp watch on the river?

4. What was in the large bookkeeping ledger?

5. What had happened to the crew of the Amie Marie?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the microphones near the agents' wrists?

2. What was Larimer's position on western Europe?

3. Why does Oscar Lucas have such sway in regard to the President?

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

5. How does the President have domestic enemies?

6. What makes Oscar Lucas so nervous?

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

8. Why did she feign sickness?

9. How does Pitt describe looking for a shipwreck?

10. How does the government plan to keep the President's disappearance a secret?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain why Alan Moran didn't tell the truth about where he and Larimer had been, and how they got there? How might have the public reacted to this statement? Could it have affected his place in office? How or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Compare Dirk Pitt to James Bond. What are their similarities, and how are they different? Do you think it was the author's intent to create a similar character to James Bond? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Describe how the public would react to a missing Head of State. How is the public's reaction to the President's disappearance realistic? How is it fictional?

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