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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. Where does Ana’s mother say she wants to have her ashes sprinkled when she dies?

2. How do Ana and her friends, along with Ophelia, enter Nemo’s part of the base?

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

4. How many people are injured during cav-drive?

5. What does Ophelia call Dr. Hewitt?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What leads Ana to go for a swim in the lagoon in Chapter Thirty?

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

4. How does Ana help the Nautilus heal quickily?

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

6. What problems occur right away as the Nautilus takes off?

7. How did Ana's parents die?

8. How has the Nautilus survived for so long?

9. What happens when the Nautilus goes into Cav-drive?

10. How do the Dolphins decipher the code sent by Lincoln Base?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

The characters in Daughter of the Deep are diverse and complex. Do you find this unusual? Why or why not? What aspects of these characters shows that this is a modern literary work? Why? What does this diversity say about our culture and literature of today?

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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