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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many distress signals have been received from ships that have gone down where the Starbuck is last reported?
(a) Only two.
(b) None.
(c) 112.
(d) Several thousand.

2. What is Dirk's new assignment now that he has read the submarine log and reported it?
(a) He is to investigate Russian activity that led to the loss of the Starbuck.
(b) He is to help in the government cover-up of the loss of the Starbuck.
(c) He is go deep undercover to avoid any connection with the missing submarine.
(d) He is to help in the salvage operation of the Starbuck.

3. Why doesn't Dirk want to leave the Martha Ann on the helicopter to go and get the salvage team?
(a) He doesn't believe the sub can be salvaged.
(b) Because if something happens, there is no alternate escape route for the crew.
(c) He doesn't want to miss the action on the Martha Ann.
(d) Because he's afraid to fly in the dark.

4. Besides his direction on delivering his message, what is CDR Dupree's final request?
(a) Do not let them get us.
(b) Do not search for us.
(c) Please communicate with my family.
(d) Let the world know there ARE extra-terrestrials on Earth.

5. Which seamen could have survived immediately after "the disaster" befell the Starbuck according to the logbook?
(a) None.
(b) All of the ship's galley crew.
(c) CDR Dupree, the ship's doctor and LT Carter.
(d) LT Carter, SN Farris, and SN Metford.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says "As long as there are seas, ships, and men, there will be strange unsolved mysteries."?

2. What replacement weapon does Dirk grab after having expended his single shot weapon?

3. What accounts for the ocean turning a greenish color as the Martha Ann approaches the shallower water of the seamount?

4. What does the Marine guard at ADM Hunter's building on Pearl Harbor base ask Dirk for when he reports?

5. What is the Martha Ann's depth at the start of their search pattern?

(see the answer key)

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