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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many riddles does the Sphinx say she's going to ask?
(a) Twenty.
(b) One.
(c) Eight.
(d) Twelve.

2. What does the Sphinx say happens to children who fail the test?
(a) They're held back to repeat the class.
(b) They're sent home.
(c) They're locked in a cell at Alcatraz.
(d) They're eaten.

3. Percy realizes Quintus is really ____________.
(a) A traitor.
(b) Daedalus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) A human.

4. What is the first thing Percy sees when he regains consciousness in Chapter 12?
(a) A white curtain.
(b) A beautiful young woman.
(c) Water.
(d) Blue sky and trees.

5. What does the naiad tell Percy to pick up that prompts him to come up with an idea for cleaning up the horse's stables?
(a) Water.
(b) Dirt.
(c) A shovel.
(d) A broom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Rachel's hobbies?

2. What is the weapon Percy uses to kill Geryon?

3. What does Ethan say when Percy refuses to kill him?

4. Who does Percy say has been sending him Iris-messages?

5. What reason does Quintus give for having gone to Camp Half-Blood?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Rachel doing when Percy and Annabeth meet up with her in Times Square? Briefly describe the first few minutes of that first meeting.

2. Why does the group decide to split up after their visit with Hephaestus? Where are each of them going?

3. Why does Daedalus (Quintus) say he won't help Percy and Annabeth defend Camp Half-Blood from the armies of Kronos?

4. How does Rachel find another entrance to the Labyrinth?

5. What does Bianca say to Nico when he summons her from the dead?

6. Why does Daedalus (Quintus) say he remains buried deep in the Labyrinth?

7. What is the argument the naiad gives for not allowing Percy to use her stream to clean the horse stables? What is his reaction?

8. Describe the skulls that are part of the arena where Percy is going to have to fight.

9. What does Percy say to the flesh-eating horses at the beginning of Chapter 9? What is their reaction?

10. What does Percy learn from Chiron about Quintus? Why does he believe there's something more to the story?

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