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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. In Chapter 11, what starts following Percy and his companions?

2. How long do Percy and his companions ride the boar in Chapter 13?

3. Who do Percy and his companions waken on their way out of the gods' junkyard in Chapter 13?

4. In Chapter 19, what is decided will be done with the Ophiotaurus?

5. In Chapter 19, what does Athena tell Percy that his fatal flaw is?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bianca not wish to go to Las Vegas in Chapter 13?

2. In Chapter 18, how does Dr. Chase say that he was able to make celestial bronze bullets?

3. In Chapter 15, what does Nereus look like when Percy finds him?

4. In Chapter 17, why must someone hold the sky?

5. At the end of Chapter 18, what do Percy and his companions see has begun?

6. In Chapter 13, who comes to speak with Percy?

7. In Chapter 19, what does Percy observe when he arrives at Olympus with his companions?

8. At the end of Chapter 14, how do Percy and his companions escape the skeleton warriors?

9. In Chapter 12, why does Bianca say that she wanted to join the Hunters?

10. In Chapter 16, who is Atlas?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Each chapter title reveals something about what will happen in the chapter. How much of the action is revealed in advance by a chapter title? Would the chapter titles be considered spoilers? Do the chapter titles increase or decrease suspense?

Essay Topic 2

Zoe learns in the novel that not all men are evil. What type of person is Zoe? How have the experiences in her life shaped her? How does she change in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Atlas mocks Thalia and Percy by calling them “the best heroes of the age” (263). Why is Atlas sarcastic when he calls Thalia and Percy heroes? In what way are Percy and Thalia heroes? What do their actions reveal about heroism?

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