Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

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Book Title: Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
ISBN: 0-7868-1707-0

     This is a great adventure book for your young child to read.  The reading level is a little difficult.  You may need to help your child with some of the words.  As of December 25, 2012, I have not read the other books in this series, but I plan to in 2013.


Chapter 1
1. In what city does the story take place?
2. In what country is that city?
3. The author mentions that Artemis has just arrived from a wild-goose chase.  What city are they arriving from?
4. In what country is that city?
5. What was the name of their contact?
6. Where did they meet the contact?
7. What was Artemis looking for?
8. What happened to the pickpocket who attempted to steal Butler’s wallet?
9. What did Artemis say to the old woman?
10. What did the old woman want to drink?
11. How much did Artemis pay the contact?
12. What did Artemis ask the old-woman for?
13. How did Artemis trick the old woman?
14. What did Artemis do with the book?

Chapter 2
1. What was Artemis’s goal?
2. Who was he searching for?
3. What is Gnommish?
4. What was the name of Artemis mother?
5. Artemis told his mother he went on a school trip to ______________________.
6. Artemis got a hit with his Power Translator Program.  The symbol was similar to the A_ _ _ s god r_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _n on Tutankhamen’s inner chamber hieroglyphics.
7. The story says that the first written human stories were about fairies.  Do you believe this?
8. Almost every _________________ pictogram or letter had an ______________ counterpart.
9. The Anubis figure, dog god, was altered to read __________________________.
10. Were the Fowls legendary criminals?  Yes or No

Chapter 3
1. Cupid was the great grandfather of _______________________________.
2. Where was Recon located?
3. What was Holly’s occupation?
4. What did the troll feed on?
5. Titanium eggs were used for what purpose?
6. At what speed does the pod travel to the surface of the earth?
7. What will engulf the pod?
8. On page 50 it says, “Sometimes she, Holly, wished that her ancestors had stayed to fight it out with the Mud People.”  Who are the Mud People?
9. What was known as a fairy fort?
10. On page 53, what complicated explanation do Mud People invent for a simple phenomenon?
11. The troll crashed a ______________________.
12. Did Holly stop the Troll at the end and how?

Chapter 4
1. What is the lowest form of magic and that requires only a trickle of power?
2. How did Artemis capture Holly?
3. Where is the Emerald Isle?  Circle one:  Ireland   England
4. About how long ago was the ancient fairy race?
5. What is the name of where time began?
6. LEP had several undercover operatives stationed in Disneyland Paris working which exhibit?
7. What happens to a fairy when it takes spirits with the Mud People?
8. What is the pet name Artemis mom calls him?

Chapter 5
1. What is the name of Holly’s boss?
2. What are centaurs?
3. At the beginning of the chapter, Foaly showed what to Commander Root?
4. Artemis did what with Holly’s locator?
5. What did Butler say to the dock workers?
6. Why did Root call Nimbus?
7. Where did Foaly and Commander Root think Holly was held?
8. How did Artemis trick Commander Root in the whaling ship?
9. What did Artemis do to the whaling ship?

Chapter 6
1. Did Artemis’ father returned when Juliet informed him that his father is talking to his mother?
2. Who was Angeline talking to in her bedroom?
3. What object fell in Captain Short’s boot when she was kidnapped?
4. What did Artemis say that made Holly laught?
5. What is truth serum?
6. What id the fairies called Blue Rinse?
7. What did Butler try on his hand?
8. What happened to Retrieval Squadron as they tried to invade Fowl Manor?
9. Why wasn’t it difficult for the fairies to stop time in the past, but difficult now?
10. What creature that starts with a w stopped time in the past besides fairies?
11. At the end of Chapter 6, does it seem Commander Root is going to play by the rules?

Chapter 7
1. Who is Mulch and why is Retrieval Squad interested in his abilities?
2. What incident happened in jail with Mulch and the goblins?
3. Mulch calls Commander Root by what name?
4. Did Mulch dig his way into the house?
5. In what room did Mulch enter the house?
6. What did Mulch use to open a locked door?
7. Did the fairies trick Artemis in thinking that the house was calm by controlling his (Artemis) video cameras?
8. Did Captain Short escape from Fowl Manor?
9. Did Mulch go back to LEP Headquarters after escaping Fowl Manor?

Chapter 8
1. Who was Mulch Diggums?
2. Who is Foaly?
3. Who was Argon and Cumulus?
4. What did Lieutenant Cudgeon get approval from the Council to send into Fowl Manor?
5. Why would they send this creature?
6. Who died at the beginning of the chapter?
7. Who came back to life after he/she died?
8. Did the troll survive?  Circle: Yes No
What happened at the end of this chapter?

Chapter 9
1. Did the fairies pay the ransom Artemis asked for? Circle:  Yes   No
2. What did Artemis, Butler, and Juliet drink before falling asleep?
3. What did the fairies fire into Artemis’ house?
4. What caused the fairy soldiers to feel sick when they entered Fowl Manor?
5. In the story, Artemis says, “Santa Claus is not descended from a Turkish saint.”  Circle:  True or False
6. In the story Artemis said elves made shoes during the night and sprites cleaned houses. Circle:  True or False
7. The story says Santa Claus is a shadow of San D’Klass, the third king of the Frond Elfin dynasty.  Circle:  True or False
8. He is also known as San the Deluded.  Circle:  True or False
9. How did Artemis escape the time-field?
10. Who was back to normal?
11. How much money did Artemis get in gold from the fairies?
12. Who stole the other half of the gold from the fairies?
13. Which two cities did Mulch think he was going to retire to? Circle Letter:          A) Paris-London     B) Monte Carlo- Manhattan    C) Los Angeles-Miami




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