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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 saves Ana from her captor?

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

3. For how long has Dr. Hewitt worried about Land Institute attacking Harding-Pencroft?

4. Which house finishes up adding Dr. Hewitt’s alt-tech modifications to the ship?

5. Where did Captain Nemo die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Ana notice is different about Socrates, the day she and Dev dive into the ocean to feed him?

8. What happens during the attack on the students aboard the Varuna in the first section of the book?

9. How is Ana saved from her Land Institute captor in the first section of the book?

10. What makes Ana the most important person in the world?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Daughter of the Deep ends with Ana praying for her brother and the future. How is her faith tradition shown throughout the novel? How might this help her deal with the struggles she encounters? Why might Riordan have chosen to make her of a particular faith, unlike the other characters?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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