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Book Title: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
ISBN: 978-0-545-27262-9
This is book 5 of the series "Percy Jackson & The Olympians." I really enjoyed reading this book and I'm going to read the whole series. I recommend starting on book 1 and working your way up. I ended up having too many questions and asking my children what caused certain events to happen. I kept hearing from them, you have to read the other books. So, if you really want to appreciate this series, start from the beginning.
Challenge Questions (Please write page # item found)
1.
Do you see a simile in the story?
2.
Do you see a metaphor in the story?
3.
Do you see a hyperbole in the story?
Chapter 1
4.
Who’s the main character?
5.
Who is Rachel?
6.
What’s Percy’s stepfather’s name?
7.
What is Percy’s father’s name?
8.
What is a Prius?
9.
What landed on top of the Prius? (A)
10.
Who was riding the A? (B)
11.
What is the name of the A?
12.
Percy joined B and C then flew to the (D) _______________________________________.
13.
D is a huge cruise ship. T or F
14.
D is the headquarters for ____________________________________________.
15.
What is Riptide?
16.
What are telkhines?
17.
What did Percy see at the ship’s promenade?
18.
What does promenade mean here on page 15?
19.
Who is the demonic crustacean?
20.
Who appeared to Percy halfway across the deck?
21.
Did the monster believe Beckendorf didn’t set explosives? Yes No
22.
What happened to Beckendorf?
Chapter 2
Look in Dictionary
23.
What are omens?
24.
What does mystical mean?
25.
Who is Apollo?
26.
When Percy was outside the pavilion hiding in the shadows of a Greek column. Who was the boy who stood next to him? (A)
27.
A was the son of ___________________________.
28.
Research: Who is Hades?
29.
Was Tyson a Cyclops or the son of Hades?
30.
What is the name of the God of the Dolphins?
31.
What does immortal mean?
32.
Research: Who was Triton?
33.
Research: Who is Oceanus?
34.
Research: Who is Poseidon?
35.
Research: Who is Amphitrite?
36.
Research: Who are the Titans?
37.
Dictionary: What are descendants?
38.
On page 41, the book has written, “Even if they didn’t die, they could be reduced to nearly nothing, exiled, imprisoned in the depths of Tartarus like Kronos had been.” What is Tartarus?
39.
What happened as Percy swam away from his father at the end of the chapter?
Chapter 3
40.
How many cabins in the camp? (A)
41.
What does the A represent?
42.
Who asked for Charles Beckendorf?
43.
Annabeth unclasped a necklace from the mummy to read the Great Prophecy. She gave it to Percy to read at the War Council. What did it say?
44.
New York City is also known to Percy as _________________________________________.
45.
Typhon is a giant what?
46.
Percy is supposed to die when he turns sixteen in 5 days. This is the same time Typhon is supposed to reach Olympus. T or F
47.
Do you think Percy is suppose to die battling Typhon?
Chapter 4
48.
Please give example: In the past three chapters, have you read Language of the Discipline?
49.
Which two cabins were fighting?
50.
What happened in this chapter?
Chapter 5
51.
Who is the world’s only friendly hellhound? (A)
52.
A took Percy to the grounds where the Council of Cloven Elders had once put Grover on trial. Who did he see there?
53.
Is Nico there to help or kill Percy?
54.
Where does Nico say they need to travel to? (B)
55.
Why are they going to B?
56.
What is the name of the person they are going to see? ( C )
57.
How is Percy going to travel to see C in B?
58.
What technique are they using to travel there?
Chapter 6
59.
Describe Luke’s house.
60.
What did Luke’s (home) front porch have?
61.
Describe Luke’s mom.
62.
What did Luke’s mom have in the kitchen in Tupperware boxes?
63.
What type of information did Nico and Percy get from Ms. Castellan?
64.
Who/what did Nico and Percy see as they got back to Mrs. O’Leary?
65.
What did the girl offer Percy and Nico?
66.
What did the girl give Mrs. O’Leary?
67.
Who was the little girl?
68.
What gift did May Castellan have according to the little girl?
69.
Where did Percy and Nico go or disappeared to after the little girl disappeared?
70.
At the end of this chapter, did Percy’s mom give Percy her blessing? Yes or No
Chapter 7
71.
There are two doors into the underworld. One door is in California in the city of _________________________________________.
72.
What is the name of this door?
73.
The other door is at a park in New York. The name of the park is called _________________________________________.
74.
What is the name of this door?
75.
Research: What is a satyr?
76.
Instead of Percy singing to open the Door of Orpheus. Percy called a s_______r.
77.
His name is? (A)
78.
What did A see at the park?
79.
Research: What is a dryad?
80.
Who did Nico say A met?
81.
How did A open the Door of Orpheus?
82.
When Nico, Percy, and Mrs. O’Leary reached the bottom of the tunnel. They stopped at the River Styx. The river represents hatred. The ramparts of Erebos, which are the black walls of Hades’s kingdom, represent darkness and shadow. As they approached Hades’s gate, who did they see? (B)
83.
Describe B.
84.
Who/what appeared as they crossed the Fields of Asphodel?
85.
The furies are Erinyes. Erinyes are the three furies (in Latin literature given the names Tisiphone, Megaera and Alecto), whom punished sin, esp. the murder of kin. They were pictured as winged women with snakes for hair. Alecto was known in our world as Percy’s math teacher Mrs. ___________________.
86.
What were the guards that guarded the only exit from Hades Palace? (c )
87.
What did C wear?
88.
Where did the furies take Percy and Nico?
89.
Who appeared at their throne?
90.
What plan does Hades have for Percy?
91.
What do you think the trap is that Hades is talking about?
Chapter 8
92.
Who helped Percy escape from the dungeon? (A)
93.
How did A help Percy escape?
94.
When Percy dragged A out of the servants’ entrance and into the Fields of Asphodel. Who did they see and came to their rescue? (B)
95.
What is B?
96.
What did Percy give A, when they were by the river, to wake him up? ( C )
97.
What happens if you give a demigod too much of C?
98.
What objects swirled on the River Styx?
99.
Who appeared next to Percy and warned him not to jump in? (D)
100.
What killed D?
101.
What part of his body did Percy concentrate on to make it vulnerable?
102.
After Percy destroyed Hades’s army, he grabbed Hades by the robe and asked him about the trap. What did Hades do?
Chapter 9
103.
What details do you see in the story?
104.
Where did Percy go after leaving the underworld? (A)
105.
When he got to A, who met him there?
106.
To what floor did they go in the A? (B)
107.
What is at B? ( c )
108.
What did they have to cross to make it to C?
109.
Which room did they go to once they entered the palace? (D)
110.
Describe D.
111.
Who appeared by the hearth? (E)
112.
What did Percy see in E’s eyes?
113.
Who appeared net to E after Percy’s vision? (f)
114.
Who did F say is beaming those blue lights at Olympus?
115.
Who did F get upset with?
116.
The whole island of Manhattan was quiet. What happened to the people?
Chapter 10
117.
Do you see any patterns in the story?
118.
Who was happy that all the people were asleep? (A)
119.
What was A eating?
120.
Who did Percy ordered back to Camp Half-Blood?
121.
Who showed up to fight along with Percy?
122.
Who were these hunters?
123.
Daedalus was a craftsman who built the labyrinth, a maze of paths bordered by high hedges in a park etc., of Crete for the Minotaur, and who made wings for himself and his son, Icarus. Annabeth said he planted automatons around the city in case they needed an army. What do you think automatons are?
124.
What were the two giant forms made of that appeared to Percy while swimming in the river?
125.
What were their names?
126.
At first, were the river gods friendly? Yes No
127.
At first, were the river gods willing to defend Olympus? Yes No
128.
How did Percy convince them to join their fight against Kronos?
Chapter 11
129.
Who/what did Percy fight one on one?
130.
Research: What are demigods?
131.
Who fought with Percy on the bridge against Kronos’s cavalry?
132.
Who flew from above Percy’s fight?
133.
Who got stabbed on the bridge? (A)
134.
Who stabbed A? (B)
135.
Who is B the son of ?
136.
Who died on the bridge when Percy stabbed Riptide into the bridge?
137.
Who called Percy after Kronos rode away?
Chapter 12
138.
Where did Percy tell Annabeth his Achilles spot is?
139.
Who did Mrs. O’Leary bring to Percy?
140.
By this time, Krono’s forces were getting ready to attack at night. Percy decided to get some sleep before the night battles. As he slept, he had a vision of Nico pouring wine into a hole. What appeared to Nico?
141.
What was the name of this figure? (A)
142.
What name did Nico yelled for after A’s form disappeared? (B)
143.
Who was A?
144.
Who was B?
145.
How did B die?
146.
Who took the children to the Lotus Hotel? ( c )
147.
Who appeared to Hades after C disappeared with the children?
Chapter 13
148.
An empousa is a monstrous underworld spirit or spirits with flaming hair, the leg of a goat and a leg of bronze. Who accompanied the empousa and the Hyperborean?
149.
Who is Ethan Nakamura?
150.
What does Prometheus want from Percy?
151.
On page 227, Prometheus mentions the 4 demons that haunt mankind. What are they?
Chapter 14
152.
Where did Percy’s vision first take him when he slept?
153.
Where did Percy’s vision take him next?
154.
Who did Percy defeat first? (A)
155.
After Percy defeated A, what showed up?
156.
How did Percy defeat the Clazmonian Sow?
Chapter 15
157.
Who showed up to help Percy defend the Empire State Building?
158.
Who went to get this cavalry of warriors?
159.
Dionysus is the god of the vine, identified with Bacchus and the Roman Liber. Percy had a vision of meeting Mr. D at Earl’s birthday party. What reason did Mr. D tell Percy he needs to save Olympus?
160.
Who did Percy find in the beat-up blue Prius?
161.
What was at the back seat of the Prius?
162.
Pandora was the first woman sent to earth as a punishment for Prometheus’s crime of stealing fire from the gods. Zeus gave her a box which, when opened, let loose all human misfortunes, but hope remained in the bottom to comfort mankind. True or False
Chapter 16
163.
Do you see any rules in the story?
164.
How did Rachel get into New York City? (A)
165.
What happened to A when they were entering the city?
166.
Who rescued the falling A?
167.
Who flew A?
168.
Who is Rachel?
169.
Why did Rachel return to New York City?
170.
As Percy got some sleep this time. Where did his vision take him first?
171.
Where did his vision take him next?
172.
What giant appeared to fight next? (B)
173.
Who killed B? (C )
174.
Who was the girl who died?
Chapter 17
175.
Do you see any trends in the story?
176.
Who was the spy?
177.
Why did she become the spy?
178.
Why did she lead the charge and pretend she was Clarisse?
179.
Who’s throne did Percy sit on?
180.
Who did Percy contact?
Chapter 18
181.
Do you see any unanswered questions in the story?
182.
Who joined the war?
Chapter 19
183.
Do you see any ethical issues in the story?
184.
Who got pinned down under the rubble of the Statue of Hera?
185.
What happened to Ethan Nakamura?
186.
How was Kronos defeated?
Chapter 20
187.
Do you see a big idea?
188.
How did the Olympian Council recognize Thalia for the efforts to save Olympus?
189.
How did the council reward Tyson?
190.
How did Grover get rewarded?
191.
Who got the job to redesign the city?
192.
What did the Olympian Council offer Percy?
193.
What did Percy do?
194.
Percy asked the Olympian Council for one gift. That gift was for all children of gods and minor gods to be recognized and trained at Camp Half-Blood. True or False
Chapter 21
195.
Do you see things or events that relate across time?
196.
Who did Percy speak to first before going down the elevator?
197.
Who did Percy speak to next before going down the elevator?
198.
Who was waiting for Percy on the first floor/lobby of the building?
199.
Who ran up to him before he exited the building?
200.
What did Nico say?
Chapter 22
201.
Do you see views/opinions from multiple perspectives?
202.
What do you think Rachel was doing at the Big House when Percy arrived?
203.
What appeared on the doorway of the Big House at Camp Half-Blood?
204.
Who was the oracle?
205.
Which god appeared above the porch?
206.
What came out of the mummy’s mouth?
207.
Who did Rachel become?
208.
What happened the rest of the day?
209.
Who showed up with a cupcake? (A)
210.
Why did A show up with a cupcake?
Chapter 23
211.
Do you see ideas, items, events, or issues that go across disciplines?
212.
Who appeared on the beach? (A)
213.
What did A want?
214.
The last night of camp was a bead ceremony. What did the beads have?
215.
What would you rate this story from 1-10 (1 worst – 10 Best)?
