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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does LCDR Boland mark the position of the submarine in case they are forced to abandon the site?
(a) An electronic waterproof signal transmitter.
(b) A dye marker.
(c) An anchored liferaft.
(d) A floating flag buoy.
2. How does Dirk suggest the captain's log from the Starbuck is forged?
(a) Using the actual captain's log, his correspondence and diary.
(b) By raiding his home for handwriting exemplars.
(c) By forcing the captain to write it using the threat of torture.
(d) Using a special tracing machine.
3. Why does ADM Hunter think CDR Dupree ordered his captain's log delivered to him?
(a) CDR Dupree is hallucinating and imagined that ADM Hunter is nearby.
(b) CDR Dupree admired ADM Hunter.
(c) ADM Hunter does not know.
(d) CDR Dupree does no such thing, those directions are added later.
4. Why is one reason the Navy doesn't consider the Starbuck's commanding officer's last statement of position to be credible?
(a) They don't trust ADM Hunter.
(b) They don't believe in the Pacific Vortex.
(c) They believe the Russians planted the manuscript.
(d) They believe Dirk is perpetrating a hoax.
5. Who is the Chief Director of the Naval Underwater and Marine Agency?
(a) Captain Orl Cinana.
(b) Admiral James Sandecker.
(c) Admiral Leigh Hunter.
(d) Dirk Pitt.
Short Answer Questions
1. What ship is responsible for reporting the incident to the Lillie Marlene?
2. Whose responsibility is it to plot the new search area for the Martha Ann after Dirk's interpretation of the evidence?
3. What is the time lapse between the disaster that befell the ship and the beginning of the narrative that ADM Hunter relates?
4. Why is the Starbuck's final position report physically impossible?
5. How many distress signals have been received from ships that have gone down where the Starbuck is last reported?
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