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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was the barbarian girl?
(a) An old maid of thirty
(b) Young, no more than twelve
(c) Young, no more than fourteen
(d) Middle age, about eighteen

2. What is for dessert?
(a) Strawberry rhubarb pie
(b) Black forest cake
(c) Triple layer fudge brownies
(d) Coffee chocolate trifle

3. What prevents President Hasan's fall?
(a) The world's support
(b) The backing of his 350,000 strong military force
(c) Kamil's voice in the UN and her denouncing of him
(d) The unanimous support of the UN

4. How many women did Dirk end up dating?
(a) Four
(b) Three
(c) Two
(d) One

5. What did the Legionaries do to anger the barbarians?
(a) Raped their women
(b) Sacked a village
(c) Destroyed their land
(d) Took their animals

6. Approximately how many books were in the library alone in Alexandria?
(a) Over a hundred
(b) Thousands
(c) Millions
(d) Hundreds of thousands

7. How many barbarians attacked?
(a) Over three thousand
(b) Over a thousand
(c) Over a hundred
(d) Over fifty

8. Who will die before Venator?
(a) All of these
(b) Noricus
(c) Severus
(d) Macer

9. How far from the shore did the aircraft come to a stop?
(a) Fifty meters
(b) Thirty meters
(c) Thirty
(d) Twenty meters

10. What did the scent of a challenge smell like to Dirk?
(a) Between a sexually aroused woman and freshly-mown grass after rain
(b) Like a running motor and a garage
(c) Like motor oil and canned air
(d) Between a mutually aroused couple and fresh mown grass after rain

11. How wide was the entrance shaft?
(a) Six meters
(b) Two meters
(c) One and a half meters
(d) Three meters

12. What was the only difference in the crew?
(a) They had thawed
(b) They had sagged under the heat
(c) The dog and the little girl
(d) They weren't there

13. What does Pitt expect that the crew died of?
(a) Arctic weather
(b) Carbon Monoxide poisoning
(c) Uncooked food
(d) Poison

14. Who rescued Lily?
(a) Hoskins
(b) Dirk Pitt
(c) Graham
(d) Gronquist

15. What meant more to Dirk than the discovery of the Russian sub?
(a) Rescuing the survivors of the plane
(b) Dating three beautiful women in a desolate area
(c) Being the hero of the day
(d) Rescuing the archaeologists

Short Answer Questions

1. Who abandoned Venator?

2. How many barbarian men were killed?

3. What did they call the Eskimo village?

4. What crashed the snowmobile Lily and Gronquist were on?

5. What did Dirk ask Lily?

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