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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dirk doing at the opening of the book?
(a) Swimming.
(b) Sunbathing.
(c) Riding his bike.
(d) Visiting with friends.

2. Why does ADM Sandecker say that Dirk is a security risk because he's read the manuscript?
(a) Because foreign governments want to find the missing sub.
(b) Because the Navy wants to cover up the submarine Captain's errors.
(c) Because the Russians attacked the sub in international waters and want to cover it up.
(d) Because Japan will want to cover up their involvement with the missing submarine.

3. Why does ADM Hunter think the crew could have still escaped and survived?
(a) The distance from the sub escape hatches to the surface is easily reachable with or without SCUBA gear.
(b) There are plenty of life rafts.
(c) There are fishing trawler's nearby the crew could have reached.
(d) There is a chase ship three nautical miles away.

4. What is the nickname of the area where the Starbuck went missing?
(a) The Laurentian Abyss.
(b) The Pacific Vortex.
(c) The Bermuda Triangle.
(d) The South China Crevasse.

5. What does George Papaaloa ask Dirk about progress on that that Dirk had recently been diving to find?
(a) The burial grounds of the Koolau tribe.
(b) Iolani Palace.
(c) Atlantis.
(d) The burial cave of King Kamehameha.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many distress signals have been received from ships that have gone down where the Starbuck is last reported?

2. Besides his direction on delivering his message, what is CDR Dupree's final request?

3. How does Summer escape Dirk's hotel room?

4. Who is Dirk Pitt's father?

5. What is Dirk's military rank?

(see the answer key)

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