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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. The narrator describes his visit with the therapist in Chapter 64, saying, "How do you trust a therapist when" what?

2. What is the obsession that the narrator describes taking over him in Chapter 44?

3. What is Caden's dad's profession?

4. What is the name of the wooden maiden on the bowsprit of the pirate ship?

5. From what narrative point of view is Chapter 2 related?

Short Essay Questions

1. What game does Caden describe playing with his friends at the mall when he was younger in Chapter 12?

2. What information does Caden relate about the Marianas Deep in Chapter 35?

3. How is the narrative in Chapter 2 related? From what perspective is the majority of the story told? Why?

4. What positions for the mission have been doled out to the inner circle on the pirate ship in Chapter 40?

5. How would you describe the narrative style in Chapter 1? Why does the author employ this narrative perspective here?

6. How does Caden describe his past on the pirate ship in Chapter 4?

7. What advice does the navigator give to Caden regarding his emotions in Chapter 5?

8. What metaphor does the narrator make in describing the donation bucket at the mall in Chapter 7?

9. What advice does Caden's father give him regarding the kid at school whom Caden thinks wants to kill him in Chapter 8?

10. What is Carlyle's position on the ship? What is his relationship to Caden?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of stigmas, stereotypes, and assumptions about mental illness and the treatment of mental illness in the novel. How does the author explore different cultural and historical views of mental illness? How did these views differ? How does the novel serve to confront stigmas?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss examples of literary, mythological, and historical allusion in the novel. How do these allusions relate to the themes in Challenger Deep? How do the characters relate to these allusions?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of faith in Challenger Deep. What does faith mean to Caden and to the other patients at Seaview? How is Caden's faith challenged by the parrot and the Captain? How does Caden achieve faith?

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