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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. To what does Ester compare the Nautilus’ self-preservation mode?

2. What happens to Ana when the Nautilus goes into cav-drive?

3. How does the Varuna’s crew safely enter the base?

4. What do Ana and Ester discover in Chapter Forty-Six?

5. Who greets the Varuna crew?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gem share about his private life with Ana?

2. How does Ana feel when she wakes from the dream about a past Fourth of July?

3. How does the reader learn that Ophelia is unique in Chapter Twenty-Nine?

4. What does Ana realize about her pearl necklace? What does she do about this?

5. What are two things regarding Socrates in this section that let Ana know that something is wrong.

6. What do those on the Arronax say to the crew of the Nautilus in Chapter Forty-One??

7. Why must the students be cautious when entering the Nautilus?

8. What do Ophelia and Luca think about the leaking of Nemo's inventions to the outside world?

9. How do Ophelia and Luca respond when Ana tells them what has happened to HP?

10. What is decided in Chapter Thirty-Eight regarding the Nautilus?

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

It is learned that Dev places a great deal of blame for the losses in his life on HP. How is this hinted at in the story? Why might he have hidden this from Ana? How different might the story have been if Ana had known that he blamed HP for the death of their parents and the fact that the truth is kept from both him and Ana for so long? What does this say about real life and dealing with loss?

Essay Topic 3

Ophelia Artemesia and Luca Barsanti are introduced in the third section of Daughter of the Deep. How does Riordan introduce them? What is their role in the novel? What other minor characters play important roles in this novel? How? Why?

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