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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. What hand gestures does Ana use to communicate with the Dolphins?

2. In what language does Ana speak to the other Dolphins?

3. Where did Captain Nemo die?

4. What does Hewitt tell Ana her parents had discovered?

5. How does Chapter Twenty-Two end?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How do the students react as they watch their school and the edge of the Pacific coast crumble into the ocean?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Riordan was inspired by Jules Verne's novels when he decided to write Daughter of the Deep. Why might Verne's novels have had such an impact on him? What is learned about these novels through the eyes of Ana? What does this reveal about the attitude of various readers to Verne's work? What does Daughter of the Deep reveal about the significance of literature throughout time and its impact on present-day literature and culture?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Rick Riordan leaves many details of Daughter of the Deep unknown at the end of the story. How does this make the reader feel? Why might he have chosen to leave it a bit open-ended? Would you have preferred a more solid ending? Why or why not?

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