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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does it take Dirk to recover himself after Summer attacks him and he knocks her out enough to get them both back to his hotel room?
(a) One hour.
(b) Four minutes.
(c) 15 minutes.
(d) 10 minutes.

2. What is the time lapse between the disaster that befell the ship and the beginning of the narrative that ADM Hunter relates?
(a) Five days.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Unknown.
(d) Six months.

3. Who is the narrator of Chapter 2?
(a) CDR Dupree.
(b) ADM Hunter.
(c) LT Carter.
(d) Dirk Pratt.

4. How does the Starbuck hit the seafloor?
(a) Bow first.
(b) Upside down.
(c) Perfectly parallel.
(d) Stern first, almost perpendicular.

5. Who is Dirk Pitt's father?
(a) White House Chief of Staff.
(b) A Senator from California, Chairman of the Naval Appropriations Committee.
(c) A Representative from Minnesota, on the House Armed Services Committee.
(d) Chief, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Commander Dupree report the final resting place of the Starbuck?

3. What is dangerous about Dirk's swim out to the object in the water?

4. Which seamen could have survived immediately after "the disaster" befell the Starbuck according to the logbook?

5. Why does ADM Hunter think the crew could have still escaped and survived?

(see the answer key)

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