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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Summer escape Dirk's hotel room?
(a) By threatening to call the police.
(b) By knocking Dirk out and running.
(c) By knotting towels together and escaping out the window.
(d) By threatening Dirk with a gun.

2. What are the two most important things about the sub's condition that Dirk reports to Boland?
(a) It is only partially flooded and the lights are still on.
(b) It is not flooded and still has power from the port reactor.
(c) Her electronics have not corroded and the missiles are intact.
(d) The slight movement of the boat indicates she is not stuck fast to the seafloor and her water pumps are still working.

3. Why does Dirk stop to talk to George Papaaloa?
(a) To find out what he knows about the Pacific Vortex.
(b) To learn more about Pacific Islands.
(c) To shake off the person tailing him.
(d) To find out what he knows about Summer.

4. What accounts for the ocean turning a greenish color as the Martha Ann approaches the shallower water of the seamount?
(a) Source unknown.
(b) Toxic waste spewing from the submarine's damaged reactor.
(c) A dye marker in the water.
(d) Vegetation growing on the seamount.

5. How long does the Navy extend searches for its missing vessels or crew?
(a) 60 days.
(b) Indefinitely.
(c) he Navy does not conduct search and rescue, the Coast Guard does.
(d) 72 hours.

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

7. What words does LCDR Boland have tattooed on his arm?
(a) Be all that you can be.
(b) God Bless America.
(c) Death before dishonor.
(d) Bravery in Action.

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

9. What does Dirk discover in Summer's hand when he goes to pick her up and take her back to the hotel?
(a) A hammer.
(b) A knife.
(c) A syringe.
(d) His wallet.

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

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

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

13. What is Dirk wearing when he goes to see Admiral Hunter for the first time?
(a) His bathing suit.
(b) His business suit.
(c) His military uniform.
(d) His wetsuit.

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

15. Who is Adrian Hunter?
(a) A government operative trying to kill Dirk.
(b) Dirk's girlfriend.
(c) A spy trying to kill Admiral Hunter.
(d) Admiral Hunter's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the correct phrasing to ask someone to repeat their message or to indicate you are repeating your message?

3. What does Dirk first do with the manuscript he finds?

4. Who is Dirk initially talking to in the bar at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel?

5. What is a "fo'c's'le"?

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