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1. What was the name of the study that Norman Johnson (the psychologist) had conducted for the U.S. government, concerning the 'optimal composition of a crash-site team to confront an alien invader'?
2. Which member of the team had not been proposed by Norman in his original report?
3. What is the maximum time that the team could stay underwater in the habitat?
4. What did the probe reveal about the underwater spacecraft that Harry already knew and Barnes suspected?
5. When the team enters the spaceship they discover a date stamped into the plastic near a keyboard in one of the rooms. What date was it?
6. When the team returns to the underwater habitat, Norman learns from Tina, a Navy crew member, something Harry had asked her about earlier. What was it?
7. When the team first find the sphere, and the strange patterns on the back of it, what color is it?
8. Ted and Harry believe that the spacecraft went through a black hole, which is why it arrived in the past. Where was this black hole located?
9. Edmunds, another Navy crew member, is killed outside the habitat by what?
10. The message the team receives from the entity 'Jerry' is found by taking a keyboard and turning it into what shape?
11. During an argument, Captain Barnes reveals how much this project is costing the Navy. About how much does 'a deep-placement, saturated gas environment with full support' cost per hour, according to Barnes?
12. The habitat is attacked by what giant sea creature, similar to the one in the Jules Verne book '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'?
13. What power does the sphere give you when you go into it?
14. Near the end Beth, Norman, and Harry all get into the small submarine and head for the surface quickly. What danger are they trying to escape?
15. True or false: At the end of the book, at least two surviving team members (Harry and Norman) choose to forget that they ever saw the sphere.
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GeniusBoy
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