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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 Percy turned into after drinking the beverage given to him on the island in Chapter 12?

2. What color light emanates from Luke's magical sword?

3. What does Beckendorf toss into Percy's chariot in the race in Chapter 19?

4. Who is the sister of Charybdis?

5. Who is directed to take Annabeth on a tour of the facilities in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Polyphemus do when he realizes that Annabeth is a girl in Chapter 15?

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

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

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

5. What appears to be Clarisse's fatal flaw in Chapter 16?

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

7. Who is Ares in Greek mythology? How is he presented in this novel?

8. How do Percy and his friends obtain the Golden Fleece in Chapter 15?

9. How do Percy and his friends escape Polyphemus's island in Chapter 16?

10. What is the name of Clarisse's ship? Who mans the ship?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of father-son relationships in The Sea of Monsters. How would you characterize the relationship between Percy and his father? How does this relationship compare to the relationship between Luke and Hermes? What symbolism connects to this theme?

Essay Topic 3

What does Thalia's tree represent symbolically in The Sea of Monsters? How did the tree come into being? What magical qualities does the tree have? What happens with the tree in the story?

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