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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. Who are considered the best in the freshmen houses?

2. What is Dr. Hewitt’s response when the students ask to have their families notified that they are alive?

3. Where is the HP campus located?

4. How long should it take the crew to get to the secret base?

5. Where are the students to start their weekend trials?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the paperweight-like object tell Ana they should go? What is the problem with this?

2. What does Ana notice right before the school crumbles into the ocean?

3. In the first section of the book, why does Ana suspect Dr. Hewitt may be in cahoots with Land Institute?

4. What information does Caleb South give to the HP crew aboard the Varuna?

5. What does Ana think about Dr. Hewitt in the first section of the book?

6. What makes the Nautilus dangerous?

7. How does Ana describe her roommates in the beginning of the book?

8. Why does Dev give Ana a black pearl necklace?

9. What happens to Dr. Hewitt by the end of this section (Chapters 11-22)? Why?

10. What do Land and Arronax think of Nemo, and what does this lead them to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The characters in Daughter of the Deep are each unique, with their own skills, personalities, and challenges. Choose one of the characters to analyze and answer the following questions: Which character did you choose? How does Riordan develop this character over the course of the novel? What is unique about him or her? How is he or she both unique and also very much like a normal person? What aspects about this character show that this is a new novel with sensitivities regarding personalities, conditions, disabilities that may not have been considered in older works of literature? How does this impact the reader?

Essay Topic 2

There are several non-human characters in Daughter of the Deep. What is the role of each of them? Why might Riordan have chosen to include them? What does this reveal about animal and human kind? What might it also say about AI? How do these characters influence the plot? How do they affect other characters in the story?

Essay Topic 3

Jupiter the orangutan surprises Ana and the crew of the Varuna. Why does Riordan include an intelligent orangutan in the story? Why might Verne have included a Jupiter in his novel? What other intelligent non-human life exists in this novel? What does this say about animal kind?

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