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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 is Dakota not allowed to do?

2. As Frank walks to the war game with Percy and Hazel in Chapter X, what day from his past is he thinking about?

3. Who is attempted to be kidnapped in Chapter XIX?

4. What is the significance of there being 12 giants created?

5. What is the setting of the beginning of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nico explain who the giants are and what Thanatos's role is in the underworld?

2. What does the god Mars/Ares show up to announce after the war game ends?

3. Who is Reyna, and where does Percy meet her?

4. Describe the setting of Hazel's flashback in Chapter VI.

5. Who tries to kidnap Hazel in Chapter XIX, and how does she escape them?

6. What is Percy's reaction when Frank offers him the vials of gorgon blood, and what does this say about Percy's character?

7. What realization hits Percy as he is headed to the emergency Senate meeting in Chapter XIII?

8. During their private meeting in Chapter XV, what does Reyna ask of Percy, and what is his reaction?

9. Describe at least three different things Iris tells Frank in their private talk in Chapter XXII?

10. In Chapter XVIII, what do Frank and Percy's reaction to Hazel passing out suggest about how they feel about her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Percy's alleged weakness? Do you agree that this is a weakness?

Essay Topic 2

There are many conflicts throughout the story. Compare and contrast at least three different types of conflict from the list below:

• Man against Man

• Man against Nature

• Man against Himself

• Man against God

• Man against Society

• Man caught in the Middle

• Man & Woman

Essay Topic 3

Which of the three main characters - Percy, Hazel, and Frank - experienced the most growth in character throughout "Heroes of Olympus, Book Two: The Son of Neptune"?

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