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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 date is printed on the newspaper that Annabeth finds in Chapter 17?

2. What does Annabeth say Percy is in the end of Chapter 16?

3. Who has managed to salvage the bag of cash that Percy and his friends believed they had lost in Chapter 17?

4. What does Polyphemus call Tyson in Chapter 16?

5. What sound signals curfew at Camp Half-Blood?

Short Essay Questions

1. What leads to Tyson's disappearance in Chapter 11?

2. What is found at the tree in the end of Chapter 20? What does it signify?

3. Describe Percy's dream in Chapter 13. Who appears in the dream?

4. What does Martha warn Percy about the letter in Chapter 19? What does she mean?

5. What happens in the battle between Luke and Percy in Chapter 18?

6. How does Percy save Annabeth in Chapter 13?

7. What story does Annabeth relate to Percy to describe her hatred of Cyclopes in Chapter 13?

8. What emerges as Percy's tragic flaw in Chapter 15?

9. What does Annabeth reveal the Oracle's prophesy to be that involves Percy?

10. What attack plan does Percy order in Chapter 15? How does it play out?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the narrative style of The Sea of Monsters. From what perspective is the story narrated? What are the benefits of this narrative style? In what ways does this narrative perspective limit the reader?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the plot structure of The Sea of Monsters. What is the inciting incident that takes the plot from exposition to rising action? Where does the climax occur? What information and tone are related in the falling action and denouement of the plot?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Kronos's role in The Sea of Monsters. What is Kronos's position among the gods of Mount Olympus? Who punished Kronos to Tartarus? What does Kronos represent symbolically in the novel?

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