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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 woke Pitt?

2. What habit did the Presidential stand-in have that the President does not?

3. What was significant about the lack of raised beading around the name of the Pilottown?

4. Where is the research to the American endeavor to understand the mind control based?

5. What line from an old seaman's poem ran through Pitt's head?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Fawcett's argument against making the statement to the press?

2. How does the SAP machine function, in layman's terms?

3. How did Admiral Sandecker know that Pitt had been on board the Eagle?

4. What was Suvoyov insinuating when he mentioned to Loren that they could 'negotiate' her return to Moscow?

5. What explanation did the President offer in regards to his whereabouts?

6. What is the joke circling around Europe and why is it circulating?

7. What is described in Chapter 25?

8. What was it that alerted the Bougainvilles to Pitt's presence so close?

9. What insults were used in regard to the President of the U.S. from Moran, and what does this say about his character?

10. Why did Pitt order the four people into the shower?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Pitt's loss of his Talbot-Lago from a psychological level. What does his answer to the cocktail waitress describe about his personality? How does he view his vehicles?

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

Describe Dirk Pitt as a character. What kind of person is he? How does he treat women in general? What are his biggest vices? What are his greatest weaknesses? Explain how you came to these answers.

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