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TLT Questions ch 16 - 22

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The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Chapter #16 – End Questions

 

Please answer the following questions.  Complete sentences are not necessary.

 

Chapter 16

  1. What is in the backpack Ares gives Percy?  If you were him, would you have accepted this gift?
  2. What news did Ares give Percy about his mom?
  3. Annabeth says Percy wasn’t smart to anger Ares.  Was Percy right to talk back to him?  Why or why not?
  4. Percy says that Annabeth should write her father a letter.  What would you advise her to do?
  5. Percy’s dream has three different parts – what does he see in each scene?
  6. Percy, Grover and Annabeth are attracted to different types of games at the Lotus Casino.  What does each one like, and what does this tell you about their personality?
  7. When does Percy start to realize the casino is a trap?
  8. How does Percy snap Annabeth out of her trance?

 

Chapter 17

  1. How does Annabeth pay for the trip to Los Angeles?
  2. Annabeth seems worried when they discuss the voice from the pit.  Percy thinks she has an idea what it might be.  Do you have any guesses?
  3. Who is the spirit of the sea?  What does she give to Percy?
  4. Why is Annabeth uneasy about the gifts Percy received?
  5. Why can’t Percy simply fight Crusty?
  6. How does Percy find the address for the underworld?

 

Chapter 18

  1. Why does the DOA security guard get annoyed with Percy?
  2. How does Charon realize Percy and his friends are not really dead?
  3. Describe the entrance to the Underworld?
  4. What is Percy’s plan to get past Cerberus? Why doesn’t it work?
  5. How does Annabeth save them?  Why is she able to do this?
  6. What does Percy realize about monsters at the end of the chapter?
  7. Do you feel sorry for Cerberus?  Would you have risked playing wit him,  if you were Annabeth?

 

Chapter 19

  1. What do you have to do to enter the Isles of the Blest?
  2. How do Grover, Percy, and Annabeth end up at the pit of Tartarus?
  3. How is Hades’ aura different than Ares?  How does Percy feel when he’s in Hade’s presence?
  4. Why was Percy’s backpack getting heavy?
  5. What terrible choice faces Percy when he decides to use the pearls?  Would you have made the same choice he does?  Why or why not?
  6. How do Annabeth and Grover prove themselves to be real friends to Percy?
  7. What is the power of the pearls?

 

 

Chapter 20

  1. Why does Percy will himself to get soaked in the water?
  2. Why does Percy begin to suspect that Ares wasn’t acting alone – that he was taking orders from someone?
  3. Which failures did Ares point to when he says Percy “doesn’t have what it takes”?  Is this a fair criticism?  Why or why not?
  4. What deal does Percy make with Ares?
  5. How does Percy’s ADHD keep him alive in the fight?
  6. After Percy wounds Ares, something strange happens that makes Ares back off.  What is it?
  7. At the end of the chapter, what does Percy decide he must do to complete the quest?

 

Chapter 21

  1. When the Los Angeles reporters interview Percy, how does he get back at Gabe?
  2. Why do Percy, Annabeth and Grover split up when they arrive back in New York?
  3. How does Percy convince the guard at the Empire State Building to let him see Zeus?
  4. Percy says he is glad, in a strange way, that Poseidon is so distant.  Why? Does this make sense to you?
  5. How does Zeus reward Percy?
  6. Who was speaking from the pit?  Why do you think Zeus doesn’t want to talk about it?
  7. How do you think Poseidon feels about Percy?  How can you tell?
  8. Why doesn’t Percy petrify Gabe when he has the chance?  What would you have done?

 

Chapter 22

  1. What’s the tradition for campers who return from quests?  How did the Ares cabin “honor” Percy?
  2. At the end of the book, who goes to college, and how do s/he get the money?
  3. What is the bead for Percy’s first summer?
  4. What is unique about Backbiter, Luke’s new sword?
  5. Why do you think Percy has so much trouble decided to stay at Camp Half-Blood year round or go to seventh grade?  What would you choose?
  6. Luke says, “Western Civilization is a disease.”  What do you think he means by that?
  7. What turned Luke so bitter?
  8. How did Annabeth take Percy’s advice?

 

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