Percy Jackson Quiz, Chapters 1-8

The first 15 questions are reading comprehension ones. You must read carefully to answer, but you don´t have to look in the book for your answers.

What does this instruction mean?

• I need my book for the first 15 questions

• I don´t need my book for the whole quiz.

• I don´t need my book for the first 15 questions.

• I need my book for the whole quiz.

Read the quote and determine the meaning of the underlined word.

“That’s what they call him in the Greek myths, isn’t it?’ I demanded, ‘The Minotaur. Half man, half bull.”

• a mythologicial creature that is half man, half goat

• a myhthological creature that is half man, half bull.

• a mythological creature that is half horse, half man

• a mythological creature with wings and talons

Read the quote and determine the meaning of the underlined word.

“He looked like those paintings of baby angels—what do you call them, hubbubs? No, cherubs. That’s it. He looked like a cherub who’d turned middle aged in a trailer park.”

• the location and surroundings of a place

• a busy, noisy situation.

• fury

• happy, angelic looklng child with wings

What word or words in the following quote helped you to understand the meaning of the word cherub?

“He looked like those paintings of baby angels—what do you call them, hubbubs? No, cherubs. That’s it. He looked like a cherub who’d turned middle aged in a trailer park.”

• paintings of baby angels

• middle aged in a trailer park

• hubbubs

• cherub

Read the following quote and determine the meaning of the underlined word.

“Percy,' Chiron said, 'you may choose to believe or not, but the fact is that immortal means immortal. Can you imagine that for a moment, never dying? Never fading? Existing, just as you are, for all time?”

• relating to humanity

• a person or being who can die

• living forever; never dying

• people or human beings

Read the following quote. Which word or words helped you to determine the meaning of the word immortal?

“Percy,' Chiron said, 'you may choose to believe or not, but the fact is that immortal means immortal. Can you imagine that for a moment, never dying? Never fading? Existing, just as you are, for all time?”

• immortal means immortal

• choose to believe or not

• never dying, never fading, existing, for all time

• for a moment

Read the quote and answer the question following the quote.

"I stared at the horse who had just sprung from the wheelchair: a huge white stallion. But where its neck should be was the upper body of my Latin teacher, smoothly grafted to the horse’s trunk."

What mythological creature is Mr. Brunner?

• Chiron

• Charon

• Satyr

• Centaur

Read the quote and determine the meaning of the underlined word.

"Satyrs mature half as fast as humans, Percy. Grover has been the equivalent of a middle school student for the past six years."

• completely different than something else

• simile that uses the words like or as

• facing the speaker or a specified person or thing

• having the same or a similar effect as something else

Read the following quote and determine the meaning of the underlined phrase.

"Does that mean the Underworld is real, too?

Chiron’s expression darkened.

Yes, child. He paused, as if choosing his words carefully."

• his the look on his faced changed to one that was very serious

• his face broke out into smiles

• he had no expression at all

• he turned the light off

Read the following quote and determine the meaning of the underlined word.

Over the doorway was one of those doctor’s symbols, a winged pole with two snakes wrapped around it. What did they call it…? A caduceus.

• an ancient Greek herald's wand, typically one with two serpents twined around it, carried by the messenger god Hermes; symbol in medical profession

• a stick-looking magic wand

• having wings for flight

• a person who gives advice or makes improvements