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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is the Starbuck's reactor room different from previous nuclear submarines?
(a) It is combined with the engine room and moved to the forward area of the boat.
(b) It is located aft instead of forward.
(c) It is ten times smaller but the reactors are twenty times more powerful.
(d) It is lead shielded to protect the crew better.

3. Why is diving on a wrecked submarine different from a wrecked ship for Dirk?
(a) Because he's diving with only one partner this time.
(b) Because ships are supposed to be on the surface of the water, whereas the sub is in its natural environment.
(c) Because the submarine doesn't appear to have been wrecked at all.
(d) Because he feels like he knows this crew from reading the manuscript.

4. What is the first year of record for missing ships in the Pacific Vortex?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1943.

5. What is the hull number of the Starbuck?
(a) 698.
(b) 899.
(c) 989.
(d) 999.

6. Who is Dirk initially talking to in the bar at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel?
(a) Commander Burdette Denver.
(b) Lieutenant Summer Moran.
(c) Captain Orl Cinana.
(d) Lieutenant Commander Paul Boland.

7. How does George Papaaloa describe the last researcher of the sunken island legend?
(a) About 6 feet tall, green eyes, black hair.
(b) As a god.
(c) A giant with golden eyes.
(d) A midget with red hair.

8. What does the Marine guard at ADM Hunter's building on Pearl Harbor base ask Dirk for when he reports?
(a) His orders.
(b) His identification.
(c) Recommendations on a barber.
(d) His weapon.

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

10. Who is the author of the manuscript, excerpts of which are transcribed in Chapter 2?
(a) Dirk Pratt.
(b) SN Farris.
(c) CDR Dupree.
(d) ADM Hunter.

11. What is Dirk's room number?
(a) 321.
(b) 1010.
(c) 4211.
(d) 110.

12. What military decoration does Dirk specifically mention having NOT earned?
(a) An Achievement Medal.
(b) A Meritorious Unit Commendation.
(c) A Good Conduct Medal.
(d) A Meritorious Team Commendation.

13. Why does Dirk take Summer back to his hotel room after he knocks her out?
(a) To kidnap her.
(b) To kill her.
(c) To get information from her.
(d) To rape her.

14. How does Dirk carry Summer to the hotel?
(a) Drags her by the arms.
(b) On his back.
(c) Cradled in his arms.
(d) Over his shoulder.

15. Why does Dirk speculate that the Navy has equipped the Martha Ann with a crew of midgets?
(a) Because the escape helo only carries 15, too few for a normal crew of a vessel like the Martha Ann.
(b) Because he's trying to make a joke with the exasperatingly solemn Boland.
(c) Because so far the only crew members he's seen have all been under 5' 5".
(d) Because the doorways are abnormally low on the Martha Ann.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Barf the Magic Dragon?

2. How many ships have gone missing where the Starbuck is last reported?

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

4. Roughly how large is the Martha Ann in Dirk's estimate?

5. Why does ADM Hunter think CDR Dupree ordered his captain's log delivered to him?

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