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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. Why does the destruction of HP initially not look like a natural disaster, such as a landslide?

2. What is Ana’s brother’s name?

3. When the explosion takes place, what does everyone think it is, at first?

4. In Chapter Twenty-Two, whose voice does Ana hear on the HP’s intranet?

5. Who are important names from Jules Verne’s novels, besides Captain Nemo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Dr. Hewitt's drones discover about HP?

2. What does Tia discover from HP's intranet?

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

4. What is learned in Chapter Thirteen about the significance of the names Arronax, Land, Harding, and Pencroft?

5. Why are Gem and Nelinha uncomfortable around each other?

6. What is the paperweight-like object in the captain's room?

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

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

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

10. How does Ana feel about speaking to the crew?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Riordan sets Daughter of the Deep in Southern California. Why might he have chosen this as the setting? Would you have chosen this as the setting, if you had been the author? Why or why not? What other location would have made for a good setting? Why? How does the choices made about the setting affect the overall feel and impact of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

The HP freshman class is put into one dilemma after another from almost the beginning of the book. How can the reader relate to all of these difficult decisions? What can be learned from these freshmen? How might the reader be able to apply this to his or her own life?

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