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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a "fo'c's'le"?
2. Why does Dirk speculate that the Navy has equipped the Martha Ann with a crew of midgets?
3. What color is Summer's hair?
4. Who says "As long as there are seas, ships, and men, there will be strange unsolved mysteries."?
5. What is Dirk's official professional title?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is ADM Hunter taking the step of having Dirk detailed officially to the 101st Salvage Fleet?
2. ADM Hunter refers to CDR Dupree as having a reputation for a computer-like mind. Going back to the prologue, what are some statements that support this view of Hunter's? (Dupree refers to "Annapolis." What does he mean by that?)
3. Acting on a hunch, Dirk goes to the Polynesian history museum to visit a friend well versed in the history and culture of the Hawaiian and Pacific Islands. Why?
4. Why is Dirk's helicopter a necessary component of the crew on the Martha Ann?
5. "Perhaps Pitt could do the impossible after all." These words go through Boland's mind after he hears that Pitt is radioing the Martha Ann from the Starbuck. There are several other references throughout the book so far that indicate Dirk has a reputation for being the sort of person who makes the wildly improbable succeed effortless. Who else has said this and where is that perception originating?
6. What are the multiple ways that the Martha Ann is disguised as a civilian ship?
7. What is the Fullerton Fracture Zone? Does it actually exist?
8. What are some of the ways that Dirk knows that Summer is neither a government agent nor an American?
9. How does Adrian Hunter feel about her father? Use quotes from Chapter to support your position.
10. What is the significance of the Lillie Marlene?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the character of Captain Orl Cinana. Captain Cinana's reaction to Dirk when he arrives in ADM Hunter's office for the first time is somewhat markedly different from the attitudes of the others yet changes that same evening at the bar. Identify other inconsistencies in Cinana's character and identify how they fit with the revelation of Cinana's actual role in the plot.
Essay Topic 2
Carefully analyze the "real" condition of the Starbuck with respect to international maritime law. Whose waters is she sitting in and who can rightfully claim her? How do the laws of maritime salvage govern this kind of at-sea loss? Most importantly, how does this contribute to the urgency and top-secretiveness in the plot?
Essay Topic 3
Examined carefully, the association between Dirk's reason for visiting to the Polynesian history museum and George Papaaloa's story of Kanoli is slightly obscure except as a plot mechanism. There is nothing Papaaloa relates in the story of Kanoli to suggest that it is related to the Pacific Vortex. The relevance of this revelation seems somewhat abstract. This is especially true since the Vortex has only been "operational" for about 40 years. Rewrite this episode using the essence of the legend of Kanoli as it stands but add elements that allow the two stories to appear related, making the transition from one to the other more smoothly.
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